Thank you Bruce and Daniel for providing a solution! We will look into both suggestions later on. If we end up using a solution, I will provide feedback on our experience.
Meanwhile, if anyone has more ideas of if anyone has already implemented a workflow to do this, feel free to share as well! Op zondag 22 mei 2022 om 22:21:39 UTC+2 schreef [email protected]: > A more Subversion-ish solution would be to add custom Properties (see the > description in the SVN book [1]) to the folders to store the descriptions. > They fit a literal interpretation of being "exportable", for example using > the command line client svn proplist -v [folder]. Depending on your client > and server they may be more or less visible for the users. > > Kind regards, > Daniel > > [1] https://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.props.html > > > fredag 20 maj 2022 kl. 12:28:01 UTC+2 skrev Bruce C: > >> A very simply solution would be to create a ReadMe file for each folder, >> either as a simple text format or Markdown format >> <https://www.markdownguide.org/> [https://www.markdownguide.org/]. This >> could describe the purpose of the folder. However, that wouldn't include a >> dynamic list of the files in the folder. >> >> Alternatively, if you are documenting source code, perhaps you could use >> a documentation tool (e.g. Doxygen <https://doxygen.nl/index.html> [ >> https://doxygen.nl/index.html]). That particular tool has a command >> <https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/commands.html#cmddir> [ >> https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/commands.html#cmddir] to document the >> containing folder. >> >> Neither of these solutions is especially related to Subversion. Given >> that you've asked the question here, perhaps you had specific Subversion >> capabilities that you wanted to consider further. If you are more specific, >> perhaps someone will have suggestions that relate more to Subversion. >> >> Hope this helps. >> On Friday, 20 May 2022 at 10:59:16 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> We are looking for a way (or the best way) to add descriptions to >>> folders (i.e. what does it contain) and files (i.e. what does it do and >>> what is it used for). >>> This information should be exportable in an overview, so it can be used >>> to check the contents of a folder and its subfolders for users who are >>> unfamiliar with the project or looking for something. >>> >>> Does anyone know a way or perhaps the best way to do this? >>> >>> Thank you in advance! >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Jonas Bertels >>> Belgium >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TortoiseSVN" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tortoisesvn/de33b76c-e1ee-4b6c-a582-d5f9297fbb9en%40googlegroups.com.
