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Re: Symbolic links and Samba

From: <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:30:58 -0600

dglasser_at_gmail.com wrote on 02/21/2008 03:18:09 PM:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:06 PM, <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
> > I guess I'm most interested in the user interface, not the low level
> > interface. I've always assumed you couldn't 'svn propset' on
> > an existing property, you had to 'svn propedit'. Therefore the
> > property interface should be no different than the file contents
> > interface (to the end user).
> >
> > I've found it quite annoying that you need the file contents
> > in a working copy just to modify file properties. We have some
> > 2G+ files and it is really annoying to have to check them out
> > just to add svn:needs-lock...
>
> Yes, and you can now use propedit to add svn:needs-lock on an URL.
> (Just not to delete it, I guess.)

Hmmm.... Didn't know propedit would allow you to add a non-existing
property. Bad assumption on my part. It gets a little ugly if
you want to script something with propedit since it wants to open
an editor for the values.

Kevin R.

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