On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:40:58AM +0200, Laurent Alebarde wrote:
> So the best way for me woudl be to use a "dummy" workspace copy
> before commiting, and another one after check-outing :
>
> WS ---pre-commit-treatment-(git-clean)---> dummy WS ---commit---> Repository
>
> Repository ---check-out---> another dummy WS
> ---post-check-out-treatment-(git-smudge)---> WS
You might be able to do this kind of thing with git.
But I doubt you'll get it working nicely with Subversion.
Why don't you use git? Now that I know more details, it seems
that git's solution fits your problem much better. It is not
something we can easily add to svn because we don't have a
separate stage between the working copy and the repository.
It seems something like that would need to be added to svn first.
> As code in each developper WS is not standard, I cannot diff code
> from a WS and the repository directly. Files have to be in the same
> referential. So either I "smudge" the file coming from the
> repository before diff-ing it with the file of the WS, either I
> "clean" the WS file, before diff-ing it with the repository file.
I think that's a horrible solution to the problem.
IMO, developers should work as a team, and thus also agree on
common coding and quality standards. No technical solution should
be used to resolve differences in matters of taste, or worse, cover
up mistakes made due to sloppiness.
> >Is this information meant for interactive use by developers while
> >developing? Or is it some extended information of the sort that
> >svn:keywords supports, which is embedded in files you ship to
> >customers (outside the version control system)?
> Yes, for my 3rd use case, svn:keywords does the trick. Thanks. But
> svn:keywords are not enough though to solve my diff paradigm above.
It does. Since you have a way to automatically change coding
style in files, you can perform that transformation in a diff
tool wrapper script. You could write an external diff tool that
takes the files from svn, normalises them, and then diffs them.
Received on 2012-09-12 13:30:43 CEST