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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Moshe Yudkowsky <mo...@pobox.com> on 2006/04/24 18:05:14 UTC
Suggestion for Subversion Handbook: Example of properties
The Subversion handbook should have an example in Chapter 7, near
<http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.special.keywords>.
Although the handbook explains a bit about svn:keywords, the handbook
doesn't actually explain, explicitly, how to turn these properties on
and off.
So a one-line example along the lines of
svn propset svn:keywords on <names of files>
would be quite useful, as well as an explicit statement that "on" and
"off" are the properties for svn:keywords.
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Moshe Yudkowsky * moshe@pobox.com * www.pobox.com/~moshe
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the process."
-- Mark A. Johnson
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Re: Suggestion for Subversion Handbook: Example of properties
Posted by Moshe Yudkowsky <mo...@pobox.com>.
I love email. It lets me make errors that hundreds, if not thousands, of
people can see.
> They are? I thought one was supposed to set svn:keywords to a
> space-delimited list of the keywords that should be expanded, not "on"
> and "off". At least that's how I've done it
You are right and I was wrong. I read the Fine Manuals, but didn't catch
how it was done for some reason. There isn't a function signature per
se, and perhaps that's why I made the error; but now that I see what
you're written in your response and re-read the document it's quite clear.
So unless the manual is re-written to include function signatures, my
suggestion is null and void.
--
Moshe Yudkowsky * moshe@pobox.com * www.pobox.com/~moshe
"This is a false impression; it must always be remembered that the
differences between them are real... The differences are perfectly
real despite being imaginary."
-- "Notes on the Perception of Imaginary Differences," Robert
Sheckley
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Re: Suggestion for Subversion Handbook: Example of properties
Posted by Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>.
On 4/24/06, Moshe Yudkowsky <mo...@pobox.com> wrote:
> The Subversion handbook should have an example in Chapter 7, near
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.special.keywords>.
>
>
> Although the handbook explains a bit about svn:keywords, the handbook
> doesn't actually explain, explicitly, how to turn these properties on
> and off.
>
> So a one-line example along the lines of
>
> svn propset svn:keywords on <names of files>
How to set properties is explained elsewhere on that same page. Why
repeat? This isn't a "special" property as far as the setting of it
is concerned; the "svn:" prefix is a flag for the client application
itself.
> would be quite useful, as well as an explicit statement that "on" and
> "off" are the properties for svn:keywords.
They are? I thought one was supposed to set svn:keywords to a
space-delimited list of the keywords that should be expanded, not "on"
and "off". At least that's how I've done it
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