I really wanted to hide these dirs on Windows and proved that its not possible
to do. Are you arguing that on Unix the directories should not be hidden?
I think hiding the meta data is a good thing and just wish that windows could
do it.
It is a major win that the context of the files in the current directory
can be determined
by looking in ./.svn. keeping the meta data in harder to find places will
surely make
trouble shooting much harder and all admin's know users will screw up any
setup that
is not trivia!
Barry
At 07-05-2003 05:47, solo turn wrote:
>i am convinced it is really bad software design to decide to hide
>theses directories on one operating system, and not hide them in
>another.
>
>--- Hontvari Jozsef <hontvari@solware.com> wrote:
> > I have seen a good solution to the same problem in Jedit. It is a
> > java text
> > editor and its default behaviour to save backup files into the same
> > directory as the original.
> >
> > I can change its configuration settings to save backups into a
> > specific
> > directory, e.g.
> > C:\backup
> >
> > I can still find the backup files easily, because it creates
> > subdirectories
> > like:
> > C:\backup\C\home\myProject
> >
> > Notice the "C" subdirectory represents the C drive here.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Barry Scott" <barry.alan.scott@ntlworld.com> writes:
> > > 1. SVN works
> > > 2. Copying the work space with explorer must copy the
> > > hidden files.
> > > 3. MSDEV Find in Files skips hidden files
> > > 4. DIR /S <filename> does not find files in .svn
> > > 5. Barry's Emacs does not find files in .svn
> > >
> > > So far I have:
> > >
> > > No test on 1.
> > > Pass on 2.
> > > Fail on 3. However MSDEV is typically configured to look for
> > particular
> > > file types. *.h,*.cpp etc. Its does not need the
> > change.
> > > Fail on 4. Need to set hidden on ever file in .svn to make them
> > > vanish from dir /s
> > > Fail on 5.
> > >
> > > I conclude that its not worth changing svn because of fails on
> > (3) and
> > > (5) and the extra complexity to fix (4).
> > >
> > > I'm going to add code to my Emacs to deal with meta data
> > directories
> > > like .svn and .cvs.
> > >
> > > BArry
> >
> >
> >
> >
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