On 3 November 2010 13:44, Robert Lankford
<robertlfilter-collabnet_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sorry if I'm all over the map here.
> __Overview__
> I've come to the discovery that I need to add the "svn:mime-type" property
> to all of the PDF documents in all my repositories in order to get those
> documents treated as binary data when served from Apache. From here
> (http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#auto-props), I discover that there is
> no easy way to do this: "to set properties on all files already in the
> repository, you'll need to do it the hard way. All you can do is run svn
> propset on every file (in a working copy), and then svn commit.".
> So, I'm left with the task of looping over all the repositories, checking
> them out, looping over all the PDFs, and invoking "svn propset" from the
> command line. Which isn't great, but whatever. I guess I can do that.
Sounds like the best plan to me.
> __The Complication__
> The script itself is easy to write. It's the idea of waiting for all of
> that to run. And then adding a similar mechanism to the "post-commit"
> trigger to invoke that behavior whenever someone makes a change to the
> repository. And, yes, I could try to educate folks on keeping up with these
> properties on their end, but I *know* it'll never work 100% of the time.
As Jean-Marc says, svn:auto-props is the way to go here. You can also
look at tsvn:auto-props which means you don't have to rely on everyone
setting up their own auto-props locally. Of course it only works when
you use the TSVN client.
> Then I tried something. I tried adding a property to a file from the
> TortoiseSVN Repo-Browser. This was a property on a file that I DID NOT have
> checked out locally to my computer. It, of course, worked like a charm.
> And, it worked quickly (meaning that it obviously did not check out the
> whole folder in the background).
> __The Question__
> How? And, more to the point, how can I tap into that and script it?
> Knowing that TortoiseSVN is able to do something that the SVN command line
> client thinks is impossible is really eating at me. I need to complete this
> task, but want to really explore all avenues before I do it the hard way.
> What am I missing here? How is TortoiseSVN able to perform an operation
> that I can't accomplish via the command line?
I think TSVN is just doing several standard operations behind the scenes.
Checkout a single file, set the property, commit the file.
You could still script this for the command line client
The problem with this approach is that it requires a separate commit
for every file that has the new property.
Simon
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Received on 2010-11-03 16:05:50 CET