On Thu, 19 May 2005, John Peacock wrote:
> c) automatically expanded using the normal keyword substitution rules
> (along with the $Files$ keyword) prior to starting the $EDITOR.
>
This is a detail, especially in the context of this discussion's current
state, but I don't think there is use for any keywords except files.
Actually you don't know them before the commit is finished (atleast not
revision, date, etc).
> I hate to keep carping on this, but I think the real discussion for
> server->client configuration should start with inherited properties
> (files inherit from their containing directory; the server manages
> directory inheritance on checkout). This more generic feature would
> give us a way to support autoprops, directory-based log templates, and
> other distributed property features.
>
I really like this way of looking at it and have done so for some time
now. I think using props for these things is very ellegant and inherited
props would be useful for other things as well (svn:ignore for example).
Regards,
//Peter
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Received on Thu May 19 16:34:14 2005