[GRASS-dev] On `svn propset`

[Nikos Alexandris]

* Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> [2019-01-14 21:39:50 -0500]:

>On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 12:59 PM Nikos Alexandris <nik at nikosalexandris.net>
>wrote:
>
>>
>> The properties seem to be already set and there is no need to re-set them.
>> Perhaps, once set for a file, in an SVN repository, there is no need for
>> a re-set?  Even if actually replacing a file (instead of updating it)
>> with a file from a(nother) non-SVN repository, and committing the update.
>>
>
>Good question. Subversion (as well as Git) does look at the content of the
>file not at the creation date or anything like that. Replacing a file is
>the same as modifying it from point of view of the common versioning
>control systems. (Renaming file is a different story.)

Perhaps related?

https://resources.collab.net/blogs/repository-dictated-configuration-part-2-of-3-autoprops
(referenced at https://stackoverflow.com/a/17562605/1172302)

Nikos