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Re: Why not hide .SVN dir on windows?

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-09-09 23:15:42 CEST

Nice analysis, that pretty much resolves the question, yeah...

-K

"Barry Scott" <barry.alan.scott@ntlworld.com> writes:
> 1. SVN works
> 2. Copying the work space with explorer must copy the
> hidden files.
> 3. MSDEV Find in Files skips hidden files
> 4. DIR /S <filename> does not find files in .svn
> 5. Barry's Emacs does not find files in .svn
>
> So far I have:
>
> No test on 1.
> Pass on 2.
> Fail on 3. However MSDEV is typically configured to look for particular
> file types. *.h,*.cpp etc. Its does not need the change.
> Fail on 4. Need to set hidden on ever file in .svn to make them
> vanish from dir /s
> Fail on 5.
>
> I conclude that its not worth changing svn because of fails on (3) and
> (5) and the extra complexity to fix (4).
>
> I'm going to add code to my Emacs to deal with meta data directories
> like .svn and .cvs.
>
> BArry
>
>
>
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