Re: Proposal: svn:temporary property

Rusk, Patrick wrote:

> It might meet his need, but it makes an overly broad assumption that
> all svn:ignored files are generated files that can easily be recreated.
> That's not always the case. In fact, it's not the case with most
> svn:ignored files in my current work area.
>

I knew it wasn't going to fly, for any number of other use cases. I'm just
trying to help get to the core of what the real solution might be.

If a new attribute were create, say svn:temporary, I would propose that it would
be an alternative for svn:ignore, and which serves both functions. For purposes
of files being added to the repository, svn:temporary == svn:ignore. For
purposes of deleting directories, svn:temporary means svn can freely blow away
the files.

For example, I might do something like this:

$ svn propset svn:temporary "*.o" fancy_module other_module
$ svn propset svn:ignore "*.a" fancy_module other_module

(in other words feel free to blow away the object files but not the linked
libraries).

John

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