Property question

["Peterson, Matt (INV-EDH)" <Ma...@DSTInnovis.com>]

When you set a propery on a file, does it stay with that file even outside
of subversion control?  I was curious because I saw in a example used in
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/book.pdf they were setting a copyright property.
Why would you want to do that?  If you give the file to a customer, the
customer's file would not retain the meta-data would it?

 -Matt.


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Re: Property question

[cm...@collab.net]

Jack Repenning <jr...@collab.net> writes:

> Using "copyright" (and "license," for that matter) may have been a
> confusing choice.  Looks like the author was merely looking for some
> string that would be generally familiar to everyone, and yet allow
> him/her to provide both short and long values.

That's pretty much that case, Jack. :-)

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Re: Property question

[Jack Repenning <jr...@collab.net>]

At 8:38 AM -0700 7/24/03, Peterson, Matt (INV-EDH) wrote:
>When you set a propery on a file, does it stay with that file even outside
>of subversion control?  I was curious because I saw in a example used in
>http://svnbook.red-bean.com/book.pdf they were setting a copyright property.
>Why would you want to do that?  If you give the file to a customer, the
>customer's file would not retain the meta-data would it?

You're quite right, properties remain within Subversion.

Using "copyright" (and "license," for that matter) may have been a 
confusing choice.  Looks like the author was merely looking for some 
string that would be generally familiar to everyone, and yet allow 
him/her to provide both short and long values.
-- 
-==-
Jack Repenning
CollabNet, Inc.
8000 Marina Boulevard, Suite 600
Brisbane, California 94005
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c: 408.835-8090

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Re: Property question

[Ben Gollmer <be...@jatosoft.com>]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:38:17 -0500, Peterson, Matt (INV-EDH)
<Ma...@DSTInnovis.com> wrote:
> When you set a propery on a file, does it stay with that file even outside
> of subversion control?  I was curious because I saw in a example used in
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/book.pdf they were setting a copyright property.
> Why would you want to do that?  If you give the file to a customer, the
> customer's file would not retain the meta-data would it?

No, but custom properties are very useful within Subversion. For example, if you
were using a CMS that had SVN hooks, the copyright property could determine
whether a file was published to a publicly accessible area of your web site, or
to an area only employees could access.

BTW, this should probably be on the users list.

-- 
Ben

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