Changing svnlook from its current read-only behaviour would be a bad idea, IMO.
I vote for adding -t to svnadmin set/delrevprop, this matches svnlook's option, IIRC. -- Brane On 8 Sep 2014 15:27, "Philip Martin" <philip.mar...@wandisco.com> wrote: > Sergey Azarkevich <azarkev...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I see in pre-commit hook template that changing revisions properties in > > transaction are allowed. > > But I can't find way for it (I want change svn:author to more readable). > > > > Is here way for this with svn, svnadmin, svnlook ... or other standard > > tool? Or I should use Subversion API and write simple tool? > > I think we should provide command line support for setting txnprops. > The code is simple enough, the iterface is a bit harder. There was was > some debate on IRC as to whether it should be > > svnlook propset -t txn > > or > > svnadmin settxnprop -t txn > > For svnlook it means adding a write subcommand to a program that at > present is read-only. If we add "-r REV" support to be consistent with > other subcommands then we would then need further options to run/bypass > hooks. This would then overlap with the existing "svnadmin setrevprop". > > For svnadmin it means that a pre-commit needs to use different programs > for reading and writing txnprops rather than just using svnlook, and the > name new name "settxnprop" is a different pattern from the existing > "propget" name. > > We will probably need some way to delete txnprops as well. There is > currently a new-in-1.9 "svnadmin delrevprop" to delete revision > properties, so either "svnlook propdel" or "svnadmin deltxnprop". > Or perhaps the new subcommand to set txnprops should allow a way to > delete as well? > > -- > Philip Martin | Subversion Committer > WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data* >
