Re: Suggestion for special file storage in 1.0

Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:

>Barry Scott wrote:
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>>How will it look on Windows?
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>Um... I don't know :-) Want to help me in deciding that? :-)
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I think symlinks would probably (and other special files certainly)
remain Unix-specific. Another such unix-specific feature that was
suggested was storing and recovering file ownership and permissions.
Note that the permission idea was shot down (I helped! :-) on the
grounds that you can write a wrapper around the command-line client that
provides the functionality. The same holds for special files, too.

As useful as these features are, I'm against adding support for them to
the Subversion libraries. Such support belongs to the client, or (at
best) an os-specific library used by the client. I'm already
ubcomfortable with the svn:executable property, but that at least
doesn't require any hacks or workarounds on non-Unix systems.

I think what you require would best be server by configurable
client-side hooks. This particular hook could be hard-coded into the
client on Unix, but the point is that it would be logically (and
physically, as far as that's possible) separate from the real, portable
SVN client functionality.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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