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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 18:27:46 CEST

This would advocate the need for having the setup configurable.

Question is, does it make it enough of an issue to need to have it configurable now?

Here's the problem.

I have a samba fs, on a *nix box attached to a Windoze machine.

I *still* can't create a .svn directory on that machine.

So what would I do under windoze to handle that???

Personally, I would advocate AGAINST having a working copy mounted across
heterogenous environments, especially taking into account the whole CRLF issue.

What do you think? Is this point mott then??? The heterogenous mounting issue?

I think the OS under which subversion is being run as the client should govern where
the working directory goes.

Shamim Islam
BA BS

Roland Bramm (roland@butlers-djihad.de) wrote:
>
>>
>>How about this amendment to idea 2: as soon as the subversion client
>>encounters a .svn directory in an working copy on a windows platform, it
>>automatically converts it to _svn. Same thing the other way around for every
>>other operating system, and working copies would still be moveable across
>>plattforms. Second advantage of this approach: Existing working copies on
>>windows would silently be converted to the new syntax (as soon as the user
>>updates its client), making a new checkout or a seperate conversion tool not
>>necessary.
>
>Think of the chaos which can appear if you mount a "unix" volume with
>Windows and use svn or the opposite way ...
>
>
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