[PROPOSAL] Expansion keywords/properties enhancement

Hi all,

regarding the answers I had on the previous
http://www.nabble.com/Automatic-replacement-on-commit-td19374972.html thread
I posted regarding keyword expansion I would like to open a request for
enhancement.

My proposal is that it would be nice to have one of the two following
solutions implemented in future releases.

1/ keyword definition/expansion by third party tool:
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With some kind of plugin/contribution mechanism, it would be possible to
handle owner keywords. You will then be able to commit file like this:

### start of file ###
...
$Author$
$MyKeyword$
...
### end of file ###

that will be expanded to:

### start of file ###
...
$Author: Matthieu Brouillard$
$MyKeyword: SomeProvidedOrCalculatedValue$
...
### end of file ###

2/ Usage of properties in the keyword expansion mechanism
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As properties are versionned in the same way the files are, it should be
possible to use some keyword extended syntax to access properties values in
the file content.

### start of file ###
...
$Author$ // No particular syntax => fecth standard property
svn:keywords
$Rev$
...
$prop:MyProperty$ // extended syntax to access properties
$prop:copyright$
...
### end of file ###

Perhaps there should be some rules/ban on the usage of standard subversion
properties and on unversioned properties.

What do you think of the propsal?

Thanks for your sharing.

Matthieu Brouillard

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