On 2/28/06, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net> wrote:
> Matthias Wächter wrote:
> > What is it that blocks this feature from appearing? Is it just
> > programming effort on the client side, or is it a lack of communication
> > support between client and server? Or something else?
> >
> > V1.4.0 (trunk r18647) gives:
> >
> > $ svn propset svn:mime-type application/pdf http://repos/file
> > svn: Setting property on non-local target 'http://repos/file' is not
> > supported
>
> I always assumed it was something silly, like the fact that a remote
> propset was a commit, so to which item (the property's value, or the
> commit log message), does the -F parameter apply to.
>
Our reason has always been: official subversion clients cannot change
versioned data unless it's done in a working copy first. It's the
reason that we have screaming warnings all over the 'svnput.c' example
code, and it's the same reason we don't allow writing versioned
properties directly to the repository. You might clobber changes that
you've never seen.
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Received on Tue Feb 28 19:31:01 2006