[SVN-2808] Map Subversion properties to file system extended attributes

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.x
• Fix Version/s: blue-sky
• Component/s: cmdline client
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 04/Jul/07 21:11
• Updated: 02/Nov/07 16:49

Description

I wish I could edit Subversion properties with standard file system extended
attributes system calls (on file systems which support extended attributes).

So for example, if I checkout http://example.com/.../tmp.php, I want to be able
to set Subversion properties with:

setfattr -n user.svn:keywords -v "Author Id Revision" tmp.php

Similarly I want to be albe to list Subversion properties with:

getfattr -d tmp.php

Extended attributes have been discussed on the users list WRT Mac OS X meta data:

http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=users&from=330961&to=330961&count=30&by=thread&paged=false

- and on the dev list:

http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=dev&from=355962&to=355962&count=23&by=thread&paged=false

Eric Gorr also proposed creating an extended attributes feature request:

http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=356749

Thanks, Jack

Original issue reported by jablko