Re: Suggestion for Subversion Handbook: Example of properties

On 4/24/06, Moshe Yudkowsky <moshe@pobox.com> wrote:
> The Subversion handbook should have an example in Chapter 7, near
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.special.keywords>.
>
>
> Although the handbook explains a bit about svn:keywords, the handbook
> doesn't actually explain, explicitly, how to turn these properties on
> and off.
>
> So a one-line example along the lines of
>
> svn propset svn:keywords on <names of files>

How to set properties is explained elsewhere on that same page. Why
repeat? This isn't a "special" property as far as the setting of it
is concerned; the "svn:" prefix is a flag for the client application
itself.

> would be quite useful, as well as an explicit statement that "on" and
> "off" are the properties for svn:keywords.

They are? I thought one was supposed to set svn:keywords to a
space-delimited list of the keywords that should be expanded, not "on"
and "off". At least that's how I've done it

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Received on Mon Apr 24 20:39:27 2006