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Logging with WebDrive or similar
Hi,
Just wondering if there's anything out there similar to MS Web Folders
or Novell Net Drive that would allow you to do things like alter properties?
Specifically what I'm thinking of is log messages.
I realise that it's not possible to set a log message with
autoversioning at the time of commit since the application doesn't know
it's more than a normal file save.
So what I was thinking of was something like a user could save the file,
and then right click on it, pull up properties or something and set the
log message for the last commit (not to mention browse the log messages
for previous commits)
Regards
Chris
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Re: Logging with WebDrive or similar
Posted by Ximon Eighteen <xi...@int.greenpeace.org>.
Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> On Sep 14, 2005, at 1:51 AM, Chris Jensen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Just wondering if there's anything out there similar to MS Web
>> Folders or Novell Net Drive that would allow you to do things like
>> alter properties?
>> Specifically what I'm thinking of is log messages.
>> I realise that it's not possible to set a log message with
>> autoversioning at the time of commit since the application doesn't
>> know it's more than a normal file save.
>> So what I was thinking of was something like a user could save the
>> file, and then right click on it, pull up properties or something and
>> set the log message for the last commit (not to mention browse the
>> log messages for previous commits)
<blue sky>
Perhaps propose to the TortoiseSVN project a feature request whereby right
clicking on a webfolder/file is gives the option to invoke TortoiseSVN and
perform some operations on the versioned object by sneakily talking to Windows
to find out what server to talk to and which user and password to authenticate
as, then issuing a non webdav command to the server.
</blue sky>
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Re: Logging with WebDrive or similar
Posted by Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>.
On Sep 14, 2005, at 1:51 AM, Chris Jensen wrote:
> Hi,
> Just wondering if there's anything out there similar to MS Web
> Folders or Novell Net Drive that would allow you to do things like
> alter properties?
> Specifically what I'm thinking of is log messages.
> I realise that it's not possible to set a log message with
> autoversioning at the time of commit since the application doesn't
> know it's more than a normal file save.
> So what I was thinking of was something like a user could save the
> file, and then right click on it, pull up properties or something
> and set the log message for the last commit (not to mention browse
> the log messages for previous commits)
>
Nice idea, but no dice. The whole concept of 'unversioned properties
attached to revision trees' simply doesn't exist in WebDAV or
DeltaV. The way in which the svn client sets these revision-
properties (and the way in which mod_dav_svn allows it to happen) is
completely violating the DeltaV spec.
(For those in the lingo: mod_dav_svn is actually allowing the client
to PROPPATCH a baseline object directly. See issue 916 for details.)
So there's no generic WebDAV client out there that will do this odd
thing. Your only strategy would be to use an actual svn client of
some sort to do the deed. (Or you could write your own mini GUI app
that just calls svn_ra_change_revision_prop().)
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