Paul Burba wrote on Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 16:10:00 -0500: > However I strongly believe that the default behavior of svn:auto-props > should not be tied the config:miscellany:enable-auto-props runtime > setting. Doing so makes it too easy for users to permanently (and > perhaps accidentally) disregard svn:auto-props. We want to give users > to opportunity to override the repository recommended auto-props (as > manifested in the svn:auto-props property) on an exception basis, but > do we want to make it easy for users to simply "turn off" the repos > recommended auto-props? Personally I think not.
Maybe your conclusion is correct, but the argument you give for it --- the one below, "repos admin convenience" --- is not sufficient: it would also justify letting repository administrators dictate the contents of client-side hooks (if we ever grow that feature), which is not something we would find acceptable. > I assume a > repository administrator who sets an svn:auto-props property on the > root of their repos considers these autoprops the recommended default, > only to be overridden in special circumstances, not something that can > simply be switched off permanently by disinterested users.
