On 1/31/08, Johannes Egger <johannes.egger_at_tigerlair.net> wrote:
>
> Dear List,
>
> I've recently been wondering whether there's a way to automatically add specific svn:keywords
> properties to non-binary files on the server side. I know about auto-prop support, but it only
> works on the client side.
>
> After some digging I found this issue: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1974
> which is somewhat related to what I want to do, but not exactly.
>
> Anyway, since propagating specific configuration settings to clients is not yet supported, I'm
> wondering whether one could modify the transaction in a commit hook to set svn:keywords="Id Author
> Date" for all *new* (added) non-binary files. One could check whether the file is non-binary using
> the 'file' unix command, or specify a number of file suffixes that are known text files (e.g. "pl
> plx pm css htm html js cpp c h java").
>
> I saw a big warning at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05s02.html (subversion 1.1) about
> modifying a transaction using hook scripts. The 1.1 version of the book specifically mentions
> svn:eol-style and svn:mime-type. This is understandable.
>
> Version 1.4 is more explicit and talks about the client-side cache which might become stale. Is
> this a problem for *all* transaction modifications? Does it apply to svn-keywords?
Yes, it's a problem for all transaction modifications: all file and
directory properties are cached on the client. The only server side
commit-time modification which is relatively safe (for now) is to
change revision properties. (But those don't have any relation with
keywords.)
> Is there any other way to automatically set properties on the server-side that I'm not aware of?
Yes, in a followup commit following the commit that didn't set the
correct keywords.
HTH,
Erik.
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Received on 2008-01-31 11:38:56 CET