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Re: Easy comparisons between related trunks, branches, and tags

From: Marc Sherman <msherman_at_projectile.ca>
Date: 2005-11-10 16:06:25 CET

Alan Barrett wrote:
>
> What I meant was, if I have the following structure:
>
> trunk/ [svn:parallel:foo = ../branches/foobranch]
> [svn:parallel:bar = ../branches/barbranch]
> branches/
> foobranch/ [svn:parallel:trunk = ../../trunk]
> barbranch/ [svn:parallel:trunk = ../../trunk]
>
> and I have a working copy somewhere in foobranch,
> and I try to refer to "+bar", it doesn't work.
>
> Hmm, what if there was a mechanism for indirection through
> the properties on a different directory?
>
> trunk/ [svn:parallel:foo = ../branches/foobranch]
> [svn:parallel:bar = ../branches/barbranch]
> [svn:parallel:trunk = .]
> branches/
> foobranch/ [svn:parallel:* = ../../trunk]
> barbranch/ [svn:parallel:* = ../../trunk]
>
> Now if I have 100 branches, then I need to set 100 dirprops on the
> "trunk", but the other 99 branches just need the indirection specifier
> to tell them "look at the trunk's dirprops for information about other
> branches".

Here's a simpler idea, that requires only a single property, set on the
parent directory of trunk/branches:

svn:roots = (trunk|branches/[^/]+)

Cons:
- Need to set the property on the parent dir. Does subversion support
dirprops on the root of the repository?
- Need a regex library in subversion, which I understand is a new
requirement. I don't think it's an onerous one, personally.

- Marc

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