Hi Robert, Perhaps SVN's properties provide what you want.... http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.props
=========================================================================== Versioned Properties In addition to versioning your directories and files, Subversion provides interfaces for adding, modifying, and removing versioned metadata on each of your versioned directories and files. We refer to this metadata as properties, and they can be thought of as two-column tables that map property names to arbitrary values attached to each item in your working copy. Generally speaking, the names and values of the properties can be whatever you want them to be, with the constraint that the names must be human-readable text. And the best part about these properties is that they, too, are versioned, just like the textual contents of your files. You can modify, commit, and revert property changes as easily as committing textual changes. And you receive other people's property changes as you update your working copy. =========================================================================== ========================================================================== Other Properties in Subversion Properties show up elsewhere in Subversion, too. Just as files and directories may have arbitrary property names and values attached to them, each revision as a whole may have arbitrary properties attached to it. The same constraints apply—human-readable, text names and anything-you-want, binary values—except that revision properties are not versioned. See the section called “Unversioned Properties” for more information on these unversioned properties. _______________________________________________ LSST-data mailing list [email protected] http://www.lsstmail.org/mailman/listinfo/lsst-data
