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Re: .svn directories

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2003-08-25 17:39:01 CEST

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 10:44, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Jesper Bork <Jesper.Bork@eu.fkilogistex.com> writes:
> > directories. You could say that this reflects a lack of self-dicipline, but
> > I believe that unless an even easier way of doing stuff like that exists,
> > this is what people do.
>
> You could say that... if you were the type to confuse a carefully
> thought-out design decision with a character flaw on the part of the
> developers.

You flew off the handle; the "lack of self-discipline" was in reference
to the users who copy-paste from working dirs, not the Subversion
developers.

I don't think it's a very compelling argument, though. Won't these same
people expect to be able to copy-paste from working directories and
continue doing work? That only works if we have embedded .svn
directories.

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