Eric M. Hopper wrote:
>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.
>
That's right. If you have a file with a newline in the name, and want to
put it's name in svn:ignore, you're scewed.
>*grin*,
>
ditto, but /my/ grin is evil! :-)
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Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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