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RE: ".svn" directory name no good (in fact, it is worse than I thought)

From: Files <files_at_poetryunlimited.com>
Date: 2003-09-25 18:08:22 CEST

Seconded here. Aren't "working copies" supposed to be localized anyway?

I advocate adding my mvadminfrom shell script to the contrib directory as a
workaround and adding that to the documenation for those that absolutely MUST share
working copies across platforms.

Shamim Islam
BA BS

If you're not part of the 80% using the system, you're causing 80% of the trouble.

Shawn (discostu26@shaw.ca) wrote:
>
>++1
>Yes I totally agree that this is an acceptable and viable solution. 99%
>of Windows users won't ever want to give a *NIX user there working copy
>and vice versa. The fact that this only affects the working copies means
>windows clients can still use *NIX servers and vice versa. Also all the
>third party utils are either platform specific or already have #defines
>for win32 so this should be easy to do.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: B. W. Fitzpatrick [mailto:fitz@red-bean.com]
>Sent: September 24, 2003 11:05 PM
>To: David Waite
>Cc: Files; james-tigris@jrv.org; dev@subversion.tigris.org;
>sussman@collab.net; roncannes@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: ".svn" directory name no good (in fact, it is worse than I
>thought)
>
>
>David Waite <mass@akuma.org> writes:
>> I'm not arguing for configuration, I'm arguing for the libraries, when
>> compiled on for win32 platforms, use _svn for the directory name. I
>> also am arguing against logic to 'support both' within the subversion
>> libraries and command line client.
>
>Excellent.
>
>If you toss in some documention, and a FAQ entry on why we have _svn
>dirs on windows, this has my +1.
>
>-Fitz
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