On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Philip Martin <philip.mar...@wandisco.com> wrote: > > 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?
This would be much appreciated, we talked about this this morning in the wake of our Python hack modifying transaction files directly. I don't know what the tools look like on the inside, but to me it would be nice if the interface treated -r and -t as interchangeable, so it was just a matter of choosing whether you wanted to poke at a transaction-in-flight or an existing revision. - Kim
