Molle Bestefich wrote:
> Just a suggestion: ask yourself this: If *you* had to implement it,
> would you really be ready to introduce and maintain such a rather
> complex system? Are there any major benefits to this that you won't
> readily get by just omitting the files from the Windows working copys?
Sure I would implement it. I would need to find the proper layer of
abstraction, and then hope that I don't need to change much code at
all. It must be somewhere in the working-copy code.
As for what the benefits are: if done well, it works on all systems,
not just Win32, and on all file systems, not just NTFS. Furthermore,
it doesn't require hard-coding of file system conventions into the
subversion code, which apparently is an important property in
maintaining subversion. Finally, there is little chance to get the
precise naming restrictions incorrect: responsibility for selecting
names is now with the repository operator/software developer, which
is where I think it belongs.
Regards,
Martin
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Received on Mon Feb 6 23:22:21 2006