Re: Symbolic links and Samba

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:52 PM, <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
> I just dug into the code and noticed this. However, my thoughts if
> propset/propdel
> would assume HEAD as the baserev:
>
> 1) For propdel 2 things could have happened:
> a) Some other user just deleted it. So what, you were trying to delete
> it too!
> b) Some other user modified it. So what, you were trying to delete it,
> so
> do you really care? In any case, the whole history of the changes
> are
> captured as revisions.

Sure you might care. You might be deleting all 'foo' properties with
value X; you wouldn't want to delete it if it changed to Y.

> 2) For propset 1 thing could have happened:
> a) Some other user just created it. So you get an error stating it
> already
> exists and you will need to use propedit instead.

Uh, or the other user changed it.

Say, it's "svn:ignore", and both of you are trying to add a line.

> Are any of these "bad"? 1b is the worst, but doesn't seem like unexpected
> behavior.
>
> I suppose you could argue that a long time could have passed since the
> original user manually looked at the properties so 1 and or 2 could
> have occurred multiple times. Still, the whole history of changes
> is available, so nothing is lost...
>
> Is this really different than adding/deleting file contents directly in
> the
> repository using URLs?

You're right! It's no different than that! Which is why we don't
support that in the svn command-line client either!

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser@davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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