File/revision properties

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Greetings!

I was thinking about how hard it'd be to implement in bazaar-ng
something close to the Subversion concept of file and revision
properties:

  http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07s02.html

Having generic file and revision properties looks neat and powerful.
A number of concepts common to revision control are handled in
Subversion using normal properties with special meaning. For
instance:

  - svn:executable stores a true value for tagging executable
    files, and turns on +x in platforms that need it
  
  - Logs are revision properties (svn:log)
  
  - Binary files are tagged using a property (svn:mime-type)
  
  - Ignored patterns are properties of directories (svn:ignore)

  - Keywords ($Id$, etc) are replaced on demand, according to
    the svn:keywords property.
  
  - svn:eol-style sets the type of EOL for a given file
    (CR, LF, CRLF, native)


Have you considered something like this?

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net