On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 5:41 AM Martin Edgar Furter Rathod <m...@apache.org> wrote: > This config file documentation reminds me on the case problem regarding > auto-props. Like *.c and *.C may need different properties but that > can't be configured right now. > > What about adding an auto-props file containing the rules and having a > better suited format. An entry in the configuration could switch between > old style auto-props section and new style auto-props file.
Instead of svn:auto-props, there might be a svn:auto-props-file=file_name_here, where that file is versioned and in the same directory as the svn:auto-props-file property. Similar features could include svn:ignore-file=file_name_here, etc. But I don't really like this idea. The nice thing about properties is that they keep meta information separate from the files under version control, so rather than inventing the properties I just mentioned above, which would require both a property and a file, I'd prefer a new svn:auto-props-ext (extended) property that would support a more flexible glob syntax. Users could define both svn:auto-props and svn:auto-props-ext. If both are present, newer clients would apply svn:auto-props-ext only. If only svn:auto-props is present, newer and older clients would continue to use it as before. Older clients would not recognize svn:auto-props-ext and would simply ignore it. Cheers, Nathan
