On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:56:31PM -0000, pbu...@apache.org wrote: > Author: pburba > Date: Wed Oct 31 22:56:30 2012 > New Revision: 1404404 > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1404404&view=rev > Log: > * site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.8.html: Complete the entry for > repository dictated configuration. A few other minor wording > and terminology tweaks.
> +<p>Two new Subversion reserved properties, > <tt>svn:inheritable-auto-props</tt> > +and <tt>svn:inheritable-ignore</tt> make use of the new > +<a href="#iprops">inherited properties</a> feature to provide additional > +configuration information that overrides/extends some of the settings > +found in the user's <a > href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.confarea.opts.config"; > +>runtime configuration</a>. The <tt>svn:inheritable-auto-props</tt> > +property overrides/extends the <tt>auto-props</tt> configuration setting. > +The <tt>svn:inheritable-ignores</tt> property extends the > +<tt>global-ignores</tt> configuration setting as well as the > +<tt>svn:ignore</tt> property.</p> Hey Paul, svn:mergeinfo is also inheritable (ignoring subtle differences in inheritance semantics), yet we don't call it svn:inheritable-mergeinfo. So I'm wondering if we can find better names for these new properties. What about svn:default-ignores and svn:default-auto-props? Or perhaps names which correspond to the configuration file counterparts, svn:global-ignores and svn:auto-props?
