On 07/16/2012 08:11 AM, Bert Huijben wrote: > On the Berlin hackathon the suggestion was raised that it might help that we > standardize a new 'svn:branch' property to give tooling a hint on what > directories are branches and which aren't. To make sure we don't forget > about this idea I just drop this on the list with the information I have. I > hope others can extend this proposal with their own ideas.
This is not the first time this topic has come up: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-09/0156.shtml http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-09/0292.shtml http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2009-02/0729.shtml > As we couldn't think of a usage of the content I would suggest that we just > always set the property to '*', just like how we handle svn:executable, > svn:needs-lock, etc. This would also make sure that merges of this property > won't need special handling. +1. Let's get the mechanics for recognizing branch roots in place first. We can worry about additional policy matters later when we have a better idea what our users might require. -- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Enterprise Cloud Development
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