Steve, maybe you can add these ideas to issue 1974?
On Jan 13, 2005, at 10:53 AM, steveking wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>> Well, users have been asking for server-settings that can be
>> broadcast to clients for quite a while now.. I guess we've ignored
>> the request long enough to the point that other projects have started
>> improvising workaround solutions. :-/
>
> As a sidenote: yes, this has come up on both dev@ and users@ list
> quite often. When an issue got filed and I added some comments about
> having custom config options, this was rejected right away - so I
> couldn't wait for that to happen soon (if ever).
> btw: the issue I'm talking about is 1974
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1974
>
> About how I think this could be done without breaking older clients at
> all:
> define a file named 'svnrepoconfig' which resides in the repository
> root. It's treated like a normal file, unless it's
> 1. located in the repository root
> 2. has a special new svn property set (e.g. svn:repoconfig = yes)
> If those are true, then it's not a normal file anymore but one that
> get's transferred on every update/commit. The client will store it
> inside the config area, maybe in a subfolder called 'repoconfigs'
> right beside 'auth' folder.
> To reduce the data traffic, that file could even be 'versioned' like
> other working copy files, with the difference that it's stored in the
> config area.
>
> That way,
> - older clients won't break
> - with mod_authz_svn you can set the access rights so that not
> everyone can change those settings
> - you don't need to contact the repository to get the configs -
> they're stored locally so every client can access them immediatley if
> needed.
>
> Stefan
>
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