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Re: revprop access revisited

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:56:04 +0100

Lorenz wrote:
> I don't know Stefans reasoning behind the decision to implement the
> revprop access via the repo browser, but I have to admit, that it
> suites our use case (setting/changing revprops on specific revisions)
> better than doing so via the log dialog (as I proposed).
> Therefore I'm happy with this impementation. Thanks again Stefan.

The reason is simple:
the log dialog won't show revision 0 if there is no rev prop set on it.
Which means you can't use the log dialog to set a revprop because it
doesn't show it unless you've already set a revprop (catch 22).

> On the other hand I can imagine use cases where users are storing
> additional revision related informations in revprops.
> For this use case I still think the more convenient and logical way to
> access this revprops would be via the log dialogs right-click menu in
> addition the edit author/log (or perhaps in the shift-right-click menu
> replacing the edit author and log entries).

Ok, done in revision 12112.

Stefan

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