Changing svnlook from its current read-only behaviour would be a bad idea,
IMO.
I vote for adding -t to svnadmin set/delrevprop, this matches svnlook's
option, IIRC.
-- Brane
On 8 Sep 2014 15:27, "Philip Martin" <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> Sergey Azarkevich <azarkevich_at_gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I see in pre-commit hook template that changing revisions properties in
> > transaction are allowed.
> > But I can't find way for it (I want change svn:author to more readable).
> >
> > Is here way for this with svn, svnadmin, svnlook ... or other standard
> > tool? Or I should use Subversion API and write simple tool?
>
> I think we should provide command line support for setting txnprops.
> The code is simple enough, the iterface is a bit harder. There was was
> some debate on IRC as to whether it should be
>
> svnlook propset -t txn
>
> or
>
> svnadmin settxnprop -t txn
>
> For svnlook it means adding a write subcommand to a program that at
> present is read-only. If we add "-r REV" support to be consistent with
> other subcommands then we would then need further options to run/bypass
> hooks. This would then overlap with the existing "svnadmin setrevprop".
>
> For svnadmin it means that a pre-commit needs to use different programs
> for reading and writing txnprops rather than just using svnlook, and the
> name new name "settxnprop" is a different pattern from the existing
> "propget" name.
>
> We will probably need some way to delete txnprops as well. There is
> currently a new-in-1.9 "svnadmin delrevprop" to delete revision
> properties, so either "svnlook propdel" or "svnadmin deltxnprop".
> Or perhaps the new subcommand to set txnprops should allow a way to
> delete as well?
>
> --
> Philip Martin | Subversion Committer
> WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data*
>
Received on 2014-09-09 17:23:54 CEST