On Jun 2, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Geoffrey Alan Washburn wrote:
> Jake Robb wrote:
>
>
>> It sounds to me like this idea has some support, and I'm thinking
>> it's
>> likely that extended attributes will be a new feature in an upcoming
>> version. However, since I have absolutely nothing to do with
>> Subversion
>> development, my opinion doesn't count for much. :-)
>>
>
> Indeed. It isn't clear to me that any of the developers have
> actually committed to the idea. Mapping xattrs to properties
> probably should be pretty easy, so I may look at it myself in some
> hypothetical future. However, even if I did so it would be nice to
> know whether such patches would even be accepted.
I was under the impression that properties are not stored as diffs in
the repository, and in general the value of a property should be
"small". This to me still seems like it fits with the general idea
of xattrs, but the more generic multiple data streams for a single
file (e.g. the deprecated resource forks) wouldn't be nearly as well
suited to being stored in properties.
Thankfully, since resource forks are deprecated, it likely doesn't
matter. I'm guessing the most straight-forward implementation of
storing xattrs as subversion properties would suffice, at least for
the initial implementation.
Scott
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Received on Fri Jun 3 01:23:50 2005