Re: centrally managing svn properties

On Oct 22, 2007, at 17:33, Beatriz Stratton wrote:

> Is it possible to centrally manage a set of properties to be used by
> Subversion users?

No.

> I see that Subversion has a set of pre-defined properties (starting
> with
> svn:*). What I would like is to create a few more, in my own
> organization's
> namespace, and have it show up in the Tortoise property picklist
> when you
> try to add a property (right now I only get the svn: properties in the
> list).

You'll have to ask the developers of TortoiseSVN if they have such a
feature. Subversion itself does not

> Is there a configuration file somewhere where I can manage such a
> property
> list?
>
> Also, is there are way to prevent users from creating their own
> properties?
> (I guess the answer is yes, via hook scripts? or is there a better way
> though a config setting?)

There are no such config settings. You can create a pre-commit hook
script which rejects commits that make changes you do not want. You
would use svnlook changed, svnlook dirschanged, svnlook cat and so
forth to examine the incoming transaction.

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Received on Tue Oct 23 01:43:39 2007