Netbeans lack of SVN Add

Question

I've been driving myself crazy over the past few days over this one. We've just finished setting up a Hudson Continuous-Integration server. So it runs a build script each and every commit to validate the commit. The issue is that it validates that all the files in the repo have both the svn:keywords = "Id" and svn:eol-style = "LF" properties set on all .php files, which normally would be great (The last time I did this, I used Eclipse and Tortoise SVN, which both have svn::add functionality).

But the problem is that I've grown quite accustomed to Netbeans. And Netbeans has no svn add function that I can find (It add files automatically upon commit). The problem is that I can't add the properties until the files are added. If I commit without adding the properties, the build will fail. So I wind up failing the build every other commit because I need to take 5 steps (commit, recursive propset, commit, acknowledge failed build, delete failed build), to do something that would normally only take 2 (propset, commit).

I don't really want to go back to Eclipse at this point, but when it takes me 20 minutes to commit because I need to do everything 4 times, it's going to get old quickly... Is there some workaround that I'm missing (Short of removing the property check, which will defeat the point, since I want those properties set anyway)? Or am I just SOL?...

Answer 1

Subversion has a ~/.subversion/config file that allows you to customize a number of different settings, among which is auto-props, properties that are automatically set on files based on their extension:

So, assuming Netbeans respects that file, you can tell svn to automatically set those properties by changing the [auto-props] section to include *.php = svn:eol-style=LF;svn:keywords=Id

For example:

[auto-props]
# here's yours
*.php = svn:eol-style=LF;svn:keywords=Id
# and one with multiple keywords
*.c = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Rev Id HeadURL
# and one with a mime-type
*.png = svn:mime-type=image/png

UPDATE:

Netbeans 6.9 appears to read in the ~/.subversion/config file on startup and does NOT pickup changes without a restart. After restarting Netbeans, it correctly picks up my selected auto-props and applies them to each newly created file.

UPDATE 2:

Netbeans appears to read through both the global and personal subversion configuration files (among many other subversion files) when it starts up. Here's a relevant portion as seen by strace:

stat("/home/kibab/.subversion/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4576, ...}) = 0
open("/home/kibab/.subversion/config", O_RDONLY) = 28
open("/etc/subversion/config", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/kibab/.netbeans/6.9/config/svn/config/config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=825, ...}) = 0
stat("/home/kibab/.netbeans/6.9/config/svn/config", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=61, ...}) = 0
open("/home/kibab/.netbeans/6.9/config/svn/config/config", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 28

Further examination seems to imply that once it's read through the config files, it then writes out a copy (using O_TRUNC) of the configuration file which it stores at ~/.netbeans/6.9/config/svn/config/config (at least on Linux).

Based on this, I assume that Netbeans is attempting to be intelligent enough to use whatever subversion settings you have set in your config files, both global and personal.