Chris Tashjian wrote on Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:34:03 -0500: > > > > For some client-side Tortoise hooks (which are for the purpose of > > preventing people shoot themselves in the head in all the myriad ways > > Subversion allows), I need to get the ancestor-branch, ie where the current > > branch/tag was copied from. > > > > When I create a new branch I add an svn:property, such as "base-tag", to the > new branch with a reference to the old branch. Then all you need to do on a > given branch is "svn propget base-tag <BRANCH_URL>" > > It's a manual process to add it, but I find it saves a lot of time (and > question answering) later.
Plus, since creating a tag is typically a URL-to-URL (or WC-to-URL) copy operation, the usual warning against modifying transactions from the pre-commit hook does not apply... IOW, the pre-commit hook could add that (versioned) property.
