Re: Revision-global properties?

subversion-2007b@ryandesign.com wrote:
>
> On Dec 5, 2007, at 15:57, subversion@fluppet.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
> >>> It may be possible to get around the first problem; so long as
> >>> the email contains correct information about how to get at the
> >>> image (unlike the first suggestion) I'm not so bothered about
> >>> whether the images are in-lined anyway.
> >>
> >> Well, the problem is that there is also no way to attach your image
> >> as a revision property until after you do the commit. So the mail
> >> could only say "check here to see if there are any images for this
> >> commit" which is kinda crappy.
> >
> > Not necessarily - I'm not talking about pasting the content of the
> > property into the check-in mail, just a link to it. By the time
> > anyone tries to read it, I can have the image(s) in place.
>
> It's just that the email script wouldn't even know that you intend to
> add an image. So while the email could include a link, that link
> would either then show the image that you attached, or for people who
> won't be attaching images, it would show nothing. Recipients of the
> email might therefore get into the habit of ignoring the link, since
> for all those (majority of?) emails without images they wouldn't get
> any reward for clicking it.

Ah, I see what you mean. I was thinking of manually adding the
command line needed to get at the images to the svn log when it's
typed up (leaving the "-r ..." bit to the user so there's nothing
version-number-specific about the log message) or an appropriate
URL (possibly mangled by the mailing script to contain the revision
number), rather than having something automagically linking to any
images which might exist.

I'm prepared for the log message generation to be mildly tedious
- I'm probably the only person in the company who uses a drawing
package to work out register access patterns... :-)

Thanks again,

-- 
Andrew Garrard
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