Subversion roadmap

Question

Recently there was a post to the subversion dev mailing list suggesting a vision and roadmap for the future of Subversion. As a result, I'm posting this to elicit some suggestions and contributions from the users of Subversion. Any comments are welcome, and I shall feedback a synopsis with a link to this question to the dev mailing list.

On the post, several ideas were suggested as being "very nice to have" and are offered as the starting point of a future roadmap. These are:

• Obliterate
• Shelve/Checkpoint
• Repository-dictated Configuration
• Rename Tracking
• Improved Merging
• Improved Tree Conflict Handling
• Enterprise Authentication Mechanisms
• Forward History Searching
• Log Message Templates

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So given all the above, what features in subversion, or missing from subversion, do you think could be improved or added?

Answer 1

Some features that would save me time:

• Repository-wide "ignore" (for Thumbs.db, .DS_Store, and the like)
• An easier way to move folders from one repository to another, possibly with a "merge" function (easier than svndumpfilter).
• Local machine authentication for svnserve (not necessarily "enterprise" authentication, just authenticate with local user credentials).

Answer 2

Rename tracking would be better than having to "delete" and "add". :)