svn propset

svn propset

[Ramana Kumar]

Whatever happened to manually setting properties with git svn?
I couldn't find any replies to David Fraser's patch
(http://marc.info/?l=git&m=125259772625008)

In line with the current special treatment of certain properties
(ignore, externals, and executable), perhaps we could have a command
just for setting svn:ignore appropriately. Automatically keeping the
svn:ignores in sync with .git/info/exclude would be _very_ helpful for
me, but I imagine that would be a lot of work to code up (and I
wouldn't want to do that, not knowing perl very well). Simply
extending the svn:ignore property manually on some paths would also be
quite helpful, and may be doable working from the patch above.

Is there any interest or further information from the list readers on this?

svn propset

[schachtobi]

In response to Ramana,

you talked about the svn:ignore property and suggested to have a special
command to set this property. But I think first it could be done
automatically using the semantics git allready has and second there are
other properties that could be treated the same way:

* svn:mime-type
* svn:ignore
* svn:keywords (is there something like this in git?)
* svn:externals (not yet supported? Found nothing so far)
  except solutions here:
http://panthersoftware.com/articles/view/3/svn-s-svn-externals-to-git-s-submodule-for-rails-plugins
  but this is not the same since the client has to setup the links,
repositories etc. And they do not come automatically as in subversion.
  I guess submodules is the proper replacement. But still having the
svn:externals from a pull this could be done automatically without the
need for scripting. And the dcommit should also work for the submodules.
* svn:bugtraq*
* svn:mergeinfo

for me the svn:merginfo and the svn:externals would be most benifitial
since our team uses this a lot and without being able to set those from
git it will be not possible for me to use git for a svn client to do the
merges.

So are there plans or updates to the problems I have encountered?

Thanks!

regards,
Tobias

Re: svn propset - focus on svn:externals

[Andreas Stricker]

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schachtobi wrote:
> * svn:externals (not yet supported? Found nothing so far)
>   except solutions here:
>
http://panthersoftware.com/articles/view/3/svn-s-svn-externals-to-git-s-submodule-for-rails-plugins
>   but this is not the same since the client has to setup the links,
> repositories etc. And they do not come automatically as in subversion.

Then there is also the git-svn-clone-externals [1]

>   I guess submodules is the proper replacement. But still having the
> svn:externals from a pull this could be done automatically without the
> need for scripting. And the dcommit should also work for the submodules.

Git submodules could help here, but I doubt there is a full automated
solution that will work in all circumstances. Here at work we have an
excessive use of svn:externals that points diagonally through the whole
repository.

> for me the svn:merginfo and the svn:externals would be most benifitial
> since our team uses this a lot and without being able to set those from
> git it will be not possible for me to use git for a svn client to do the
> merges.

For me the support for the new svn:externals syntax [2] would be a first
huge step forwards. With the proper support for the new syntax I may use
the git-svn-clone-externals [1] to fetch the externals.

I started to extend git-svn to support those new syntax and pushed
it to github [3] for those who are interested. I'm a bit busy at the
moment, but like to continue this work.

Regards, Andy

[1] http://github.com/andrep/git-svn-clone-externals
[2] http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.5.html#externals
[3] http://github.com/AndyStricker/git#



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