Re: WC metadata redesign (was: [PROPOSAL] Drop XML from .svn/entries)

On 2006-04-08 11:02:18 +0000, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> > > - If the user explicitly asks for it, hardlinked text-base files.
>
> >This isn't portable and it is dangerous. I'd much more like optional
> >text bases to be implemented.
>
> Don't discount it that easily, it's more portable than you think.
> Hard links are available in OS X and even NTFS nowadays.

But users have reported that hard links aren't reliable yet under
Mac OS X.

> Dangerous, not really - as I wrote, corrupted text-base would easily
> be detected, and besides it would never be the default but an active
> user choice (svn co --I-promise-to-break-links-on-editing). All
> standard editors do the right thing by default.

One doesn't always use an editor. I often modify files with "cmd >>file".
Also this would have to be disabled for files with keywords (and possibly
with a different EOL). If this is optional, this can be OK.

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