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Re: Handling of MacOSX directory "packages"?

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2009a_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:33:22 -0600

On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:10, Steve Ward wrote:

> Many MAC apps (Pages, Keynote, Bean, ...) choose to represent
> documents as a directory, using the OS directory mechanism as
> a "packaging" scheme for document-related data. While this seems
> reasonable, it runs afoul of SVN: when such a document is checked
> in, an .svn subdirectory is added; when edited by the Mac app, that
> .svn subdirectory is deleted (as the app feels it "owns" the
> directory's
> contents).
>
> Is there any standard way around this dilemma? For example, a
> property that caused, say, directories matching *.pages to be treated
> as opaque packages would be great, though I've not found one.

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=707

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