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Re: Add ".svn-base" suffix to the pristine files in 1.7

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 14:02:29 +0200

On 05/18/2011 01:34 PM, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> On 05/18/2011 01:23 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
>> My specific use case is doing a text search in some file manager [1] on
>> MS Windows. There I can specify mask and exclude mask for file name,
>> but cannot specify masks for the file path.
>>
>> Several workarounds are possible here, but I think there might be other
>> use cases, like configuring antivirus software, or less experienced users.
>>
>> [1] http://farmanager.com/screenshots.php?l=en
>
> I think it would be fine if we renamed the pristine files to have a
> file-pattern-matchable suffix. In the room here in Berlin, others seem to
> agree. There's effectively no cost to Subversion, and clearly it would
> provide benefit in situations such as yours.
>
> You mentioned not being able to provide a patch, but would you be
> willing/able to at least file an issue for this in our tracker?
>

Actually, I'm messing around in the tracker at the moment. I'll file the issue.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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Received on 2011-05-18 14:03:02 CEST

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