Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Friday, September 22, 2006 9:14 AM +0200 Dukhat
<u23104331@telia.com> wrote:
>
>> My suggestion is: Invent a few official subversion properties to control
>> the settings. Like svn:tab=8 svn:indent=4 svn:tabfill=space or
>> svn:tab=8,4,S .
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> I question putting them in the "svn:" namespace, since Subversion
isn't directly involved in the editing of text files.
No, agreed, Subversion doesn't do that. However at least the tab-size is
a part of the file's rendering, i.e. a part of the file's properties
which should be stored and versioned.
> Some editors recognize this kind of control in the form of special
source code comments. Moving this information to Subversion properties
would mean that editors would need to link the Subversion libraries to
access them.
No, they would use the plug-ins: Ankh for VS, something for emacs etc.
Those two would cover a large part of the users.
> Instead, I would suggest putting source style information in a
separate file so that users of any version control system could access it.
Very nice... in theory. However, in real life that would imply yet
another hopelessly ignored library.
In real life, "cat" on linux and "type" on windows will never use any
solution to detect tab-size, whether it be a separate file or version
control system.
No, this property is for coders using the Subversion flavoured tools.
There is a real chance that if Subversion describes this property, the
tools and utilities can pick it up quite fast. For example, svn diff
could lead the way. If TortoiseSVN and Ankh adopt, the Windows world is
largely covered.
But, the separate file solution could gain ground IFF the Subversion
team would implement such a stand-alone library for all platforms. And
use it themselves, of course. Adopting a third party solution might also
work, if done officially by the Subversion team.
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Received on Sat Sep 23 11:30:42 2006