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Re: GUI for subversion?

From: Glenn A. Thompson <gthompson_at_cdr.net>
Date: 2002-06-05 22:23:39 CEST

Jay,

> The "if Windows
> developers want it to work, they can contribute fixes for it" attitude was
> inexcusable to me on a project that claims to be cross platform as well as
> specifically listing "Windows" as a target.

You want unix people contributing Windows fixes.
Why?

> *will have to play with the windows build later today and see if it is all
> happiness yet with things like directory moves and deletes (the most common
> issues caused by the poorly designed read-only file API in APR that the Unix
> people added), case _in_sensitivity in file names (which totally thrashed a
> lot of work that a friend of mine did when I gave him access to a repository
> and subversion kept silently going insane on the server when he would fail
> to type the file names in the same case as they were on the drive), / vs. \
> at the command line, and the other long list of things that has been a known
> issue since forever*

Yikes!!!!!!!!!!
Bitter Beer Face :-)

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