Re: Where do CVS "descriptions" get stored?

Michael Haggerty <[email protected]> wrote:

> [...]
>>> I also made the property name used for CVS revision numbers changeable
>>> by the user in r4967, though I didn't change the default.

>> As the property name is configurable, I do not object to the
>> default, but wanted to share my reasoning for choosing
>> "dc:description" in the first place: While "cvs2svn:cvs-rev"
>> does have an undeniable relationship to CVS and/or cvs2svn,
>> the description - as *user-supplied* data - belongs to the
>> file (like its name) and its property name should not be de-
>> pendent on the (previously) used version control system.

> Yes, this is a good argument.  I still don't like dc:description because
> there is no precedent for it that I know of.

> Personally, I think "svn:description" would be the most appropriate
> name, because the "svn:" namespace is owned by the Subversion project
> and is therefore free of conflicts.  The description is no more or less
> VCS-specific than similar properties like svn:log, svn:author, or
> svn:date.  All of these properties are in the "svn:" namespace just to
> avoid conflicts with arbitrary properties that users might want to set,
> not because they are particularly married to SVN (after all, every VCS
> has exactly analogous metadata).

> So if you can get the Subversion community to approve the use of an
> svn:description property, I would be happy to change the default.
> You've convinced me that it would be more appropriate than
> cvs:description.  (In fact, if you get consensus there for
> dc:description or anything else, I'd be happy to go along with it.)

Well, I'm not on a mission here, so I'll leave proselytizing
the Subversion community to someone else :-).

  The idea for "dc:" came to me from pointers in archived
discussions on the need for "svn:description" and were rein-
forced when I recently played around with RSS. There, e. g.
in the feed for this group (cf.
<URI:http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/servlets/WebFeed?artifact=messages&dsForumId=1670>),
it is used for some elements extending the RSS specification
(even though I must admit that apparently "description" was
included in the RSS namespace to avoid having to deal with
more than one namespace in trivial cases).

  Thanks again for cvs2svn! :-)

Tim

P. S.: git does not have a notion of file properties in a
       Subversion way, does it?

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