Re: [TSVN] Svn:ignore -- recursive -- bug report

Darrick Wiebe wrote:

> I respectfully maintain that it is a bug. At least when done through a GUI,
> the overwrite is unexpected. On the command line, it would probably seem
> natural.

I think it's the correct behaviour for a GUI too. Think about it: you
*set* the properties recursively. So the new value of the property (in
case of the ignore property this would be the list of ignore patterns)
is set recursively to all files below the folder you've selected.

If you wanted to remove one of the ignore patterns then you would expect
that value not just be added/merged either, you'd expect it to be
removed too.

> Please consider introducing a recursive-append option in which tsvn just
> iterated through the tree itself and appended non recursive options to each
> child folder.

That's not possible without rewriting a big part of the Subversion API,
and that's something I definitely will never do. We would end up with
kind of our own version of the Subversion library which we would have to
support forever.

Stefan

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