Re: inheritable properties names (was: Re: svn commit: r1404404 - /subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.8.html)

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:40:41AM -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:
>> Guess I just do not see big benefit from using the existing property.
>> I am not vetoing the idea or anything, just do not see the big
>> improvement and the parsing/merging sounds complicated.
>
> I agree. Changing the way svn:ignore works introduces a risk
> of regressions without much benefit.

It probably goes without saying, but I'm with Mark and Stefan on this.
 I don't see any advantage to piggybacking new inheritable ignore
behavior on the existing svn:ignore property.

As for the property names, after much discussion on IRC
(http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/svn-dev?date=2012-11-01#l185)
it appears we are in agreement on these changes:

"svn:inheritable-auto-props" --> "svn:auto-props".
"svn:inheritable-ignores" --> "svn:global-ignores"

(Yes, the "global" in svn:global-ignores is only "global" to the
subtree on which the property is set, but we want to differentiate
between the old "svn:ignore" property and as Stefan pointed out in
IRC, we just need to pick a name, document the behavior and go with
it)

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