Re: refrobnicated repository again

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:55:56PM -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> "Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.org> writes:
>
> > > $ /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.0/bin/db_archive -a -h ${repos}/db | xargs rm
> > >
> > > Much nicer than a loop...
> >
> > Someone should create a directory in the repository who's name
> > has a space in it, which contains other directories and files with
> > spaces, double quotes, single quotes, backticks and carraige returns in
> > their names. This will save you many headaches later.
>
> Eric, the db_archive program spits out the names of DB logfiles that
> can be safely deleted. It has nothing to do with names of things
> stored in the virtual fs. :-)

        I suspected the db_archive program might produce shell
metacharacter clean ouput. Some things just jump out at me when reading
code, and I figured making that general comment was a good idea.

        I do believe, for example, that the svn:ignore property is
stored in a form that will not work for files with certain characters in
their filenames.

*grin*,

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