Re: Bikeshed: configuration override order

On 06.08.2010 19:50, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> I'm doing some more thinking about repository-dictated configuration,
> and one of the things I'd like some discussion on is the order of
> configuration overrides. The consensus is that the repository can not
> be sure that it's dictated configuration is received and respected by
> the client, so it should treat whatever config it sends as purely
> suggestive. We currently have several (implemented or proposed)
> sources for configuration information, and I think they should be
> searched in the following order:
>
> * Client site-wide configuration (/etc/subversion)
> * Client user-specific configuration (~/subversion, 'svn --config-dir')
> * Repository-dictated configuration (as described above)
> * Explicit configuration supplied by the client application
> ('svn --config-option', or Eclipse configuration options)
>
> Not every location contains every bit of config, of course, but in the
> case of conflicts, the most recent encountered value sticks. In other
> words, a client could override repository-dictated configuration
> options by using 'svn --config-option', or the (as yet unimplemented)
> equivalent facility for other API consumers.

I think that repository-dictated configurations should override client
configs. This is what I think most corporations would expect.
Maybe there could be two client configs: one used as a default if no
corresponding repo-dictated config is available, and then one to
explicitly override the repo-dictated config.

Something like this:

    * Client site-wide configuration (/etc/subversion)
    * Client user-specific configuration (~/subversion, 'svn --config-dir')
    * Explicit configuration supplied by the client application
      ('svn --config-option', or Eclipse configuration options)
    * Repository-dictated configuration (as described above)
    * forced configuration by the client (e.g., svn --override-repo-config)

Stefan

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