On 2007-03-23 01:36:11 +0000, Julian Phillips wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>
> > I thought about the properties, but didn't bother to write
> > anything on that subject as we may just be able to say "look,
> > properties are not supported in git-svnserver, so don't try to use
> > them".
>
> Indeed. That's what I was aiming at with the the last sentence (not
> very clearly unfortunately). It would be nice if the server could
> tell the client that properties are not supported ... but I doubt
> that it can, since they are fundamental part of Subversion.
>
> In particular it's how the client finds out about things like
> symlinks and line ending conversion. It may be necessary to provide
> some basic support for some of the properties in the svn:...
> namespace in order for the Subversion repo access library not to
> refuse to talk to the git server.
Maybe the pragmatic solution would be to have built-in handling of a
few properties such as svn:executable and svn:ignore that have git
equivalents, and just emulate all other properties with files.
--
Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.treskal.com/kalle
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