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William Yates (122) | asked Jun 11 '08, 8:08 a.m.
Hi

We have moved from SVN to RTC as source code repository. In SVN we had the ability to add attributes to a file under source control. We used this to control our build engine. However since moving to RTC we can't seem to understand how to add metadata to a file.

Does anyone know if this is supported or not? - if it is where is it?

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Dmitry Karasik (1.8k11) | answered Jun 11 '08, 8:08 a.m.
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:18:01 +0000, hobbit wrote:

Hi

We have moved from SVN to RTC as source code repository. In SVN we had
the ability to add attributes to a file under source control. We used
this to control our build engine. However since moving to RTC we can't
seem to understand how to add metadata to a file.

Does anyone know if this is supported or not? - if it is where is it?

There is currently no generic method for adding attributes to files in
SCM. That being said we do track the encoding, mime type, executable and
modification stamps. However you cannot trivially add new attributes
yourself.

As an alternative you could create a properties file in the root of your
project that will describe extended properties for files in the project.
Then your build engine could read that file and interpret the properties
from it.

- Dmitry

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Jean-Michel Lemieux (2.5k11) | answered Jun 11 '08, 11:27 a.m.
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Could you describe a bit what properties you added and how they were used?

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