On 04.01.2012 11:09, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-01-03 15:44:47 +0100, Branko Čibej wrote: >> I think this whole thread is slightly bogus. It should be obvious that >> whatever is in the svn:author field has better be a unique identifier of >> the person responsible for the commit, regardless of how it gets there. > I'd say that this choice should entirely be made by the administrator > of the repository.
Exactly. And we give that choice, at least for Apache-embedded servers (which is what enterprises will use, I hope). If we, say, added another property where admins could write a whole other set of information, we'd either have to define the format (and incidentally tee off the 90% who want a different format), or leave the contents up to the administrator (and tee off the other 90% who want compatibility across diverse installations). I still don't understand why it's so hard for other tools to, e.g., look up the svn:author unique ID on an LDAP server somewhere. Otherwise we're effectively duplicating (a small part of) any of the "standard" directory services. (Yeah, I know that "enterprise" tools like to duplicate functionality and mess up open standards while they're at it, but I don't see why we should be doing the same.) -- Brane
