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Re: [Issue 584] - get rid of path styles inside svn

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-01-07 21:30:37 CET

Great! I will try to take a look at this tomorrow evening [would do
it today if could], but anyone else who wants to give it a look over
shouldn't hesitate to do so as well, of course.

-Karl

Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
> I finally managed to create a patch for this issue. It's a bit big, so
> I'd like to ask someone to give it a quick review, and test the
> changes on Unix for me -- I don't have a Unix machine handy for SVN
> development at the moment.
>
> Basically, this patch does the following:
>
> * Removes all traces of svn_path_style from the code
> * Make Subversion use / as the directory separatore internally
> * Adds two new functions, svn_path_normalize and
> svn_path_denormalize (he he, love those names) that convert
> between the local and internal path syntax. These functions aren't
> used anywhere yet, but are intended to be used by the client
> program (*not* libsvn_client) to hammer incoming paths into the
> internal form and outgoing paths (e.g., those coming from trace
> editors) into the local form.
>
> I suspect everything should work as before on Unix.
>
> I'm not sure about Win32 yet -- as long as you don't try to feed it \
> separators, up and st definitely work (better than before), and ci
> should, barring problems in APR, which I'll fix as I come to them.
>
> If everything is O.K. on Unix, I'll try to revive the tests on Win32
> and commit this in about a week -- the sooner the better, as it's a
> bit hard to maintain a patch of this size. The next step is to add
> calls to svn_path_(de)normalize in the appopriate places.

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