On 20.12.2010 23:28, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
In issue #3765, I suggest the possibility of a CVS-style config file
wherein a user could specify a set of default arguments for a given
subcommand. For example, 'svn diff' would default to 'svn diff -x -p'
if the config file had an entry for such. Thinking this would be an
SMOP, I jumped in...only to discover that it isn't.
The actual implementation isn't hard, I'm just wondering about where
the configuration should live. We have a ~/.subversion/config file,
but these options aren't for the client library, they are specific to
the commandline client. This makes me think that we should have a
separate file for the commandline client, and that it may want to be
something like ~/.svnrc or something equally commandline-ish.
Thoughts?
-Hyrum
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3765
I think this kind of feature can be useful and since
it is a UI optimization specific / local to a particular
client, I don't see why it should not be implemented.
TSVN, for instance, uses its own implementation
to manage user preferences and these are often
quite specific to TSVN's UI needs. So, there is
little room for or potential benefit of reuse across
various client implementations.
Not to limit the kind of information a particular
client could store in its config file (e.g. multiple
sections per client instead of one), I would prefer
separate config files for each client.
The number of clients would be > 1 and I would
not like to see my home folder being cluttered by
tons of .svnrc, .svnadminrc ... files. Keep them in
~/.subversion/ .
-- Stefan^2.
