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[Aaron Bentley]

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Tim Webster wrote:
> On 10/19/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>> I believe SVN supports recording arbitrary file properties, so it's just
>> a matter of applying those properties to the tree.
> 
> yes svn has arbitrary properties which can be manipulated.
> They are not really intended for permissions, ownership, and acl.
> To use the svn properties for this requires adding scm tools.

Agreed.  I think it's okay to require extra work to set the scm up to
handle configurations.

> Also svn does not allow files in the same directory to live in
> multiple repos

It would surprise me if many SCMs that support atomic commit also
support intermixing files from multiple repos in the same directory.

>> You mean multiple merge sources?
> 
> yes, Multiple merge sources is handy for collaborative document editing

That's something I'd like for software development, too.

Aaron
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