On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Paul Burba <ptbu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Does svnlook support inherited-props? >> >> No >> >>> At first sight, I think not >>> (can't see the --show-inherited-props option in the output of 'svnlook >>> help propget'). >>> >>> Are there any plans to implement this before 1.8? >> >> No plans as of right now, but I can certainly tackle that if necessary. > > I'm not sure, but maybe it would be useful for example in generic > pre-commit hook scripts for enforcing auto-props: > > for x in (svnlook changed -t $TXN): > if ($x is addition or propmod): > autoprops = svnlook pg -t $TXN --show-inherited-props svn:auto-props $x > enforce_props(autoprops, $x) > > (possibly combined with some authz that makes the > project-base-directory, containing svn:auto-props, only writable by > project administrators or something like that) > > But then again, this would probably be a very inefficient way to check > this. If the commit adds 100 files, it doesn't make much sense to > propget 100 times the same autoprops from some project-root-dir. > > But I guess in some cases it can still be quite useful, and it doesn't > hurt to have the option available, does it :-) ?
Yeah, it should be relatively easy to do, I've got time before 1.8 heads out the door, and it can't hurt to have it. So I'll look into making this happen tomorrow. -- Paul T. Burba CollabNet, Inc. -- www.collab.net -- Enterprise Cloud Development Skype: ptburba > -- > Johan
