Re: RFC: Standardizing a 'svn:branch' (boolean) property

On 07/16/2012 08:11 AM, Bert Huijben wrote:
> On the Berlin hackathon the suggestion was raised that it might help that we
> standardize a new 'svn:branch' property to give tooling a hint on what
> directories are branches and which aren't. To make sure we don't forget
> about this idea I just drop this on the list with the information I have. I
> hope others can extend this proposal with their own ideas.

This is not the first time this topic has come up:

http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-09/0156.shtml
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-09/0292.shtml
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-02/0729.shtml

> As we couldn't think of a usage of the content I would suggest that we just
> always set the property to '*', just like how we handle svn:executable,
> svn:needs-lock, etc. This would also make sure that merges of this property
> won't need special handling.

+1. Let's get the mechanics for recognizing branch roots in place first.
We can worry about additional policy matters later when we have a better
idea what our users might require.

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