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Re: .svn directories

From: SteveKing <steveking_at_gmx.ch>
Date: 2003-08-25 18:00:31 CEST

.svn directories
----- Original Message -----
From: Jesper Bork

> In response to your claim about replacing CVS while
> eliminating its flaws, I must say that the 'cvs' directories
> in the source code branch is one of CVS great
> annoyances to us (and to others, I would certainly
> expect), since it makes the SCM system very vulnerable
> to copy-paste type errors and misunderstandings. In a
> company with many customer-projects, our developers
> often copy-paste something from one project into another.
> A common happening is therefore that one or more cvs
> directories has been copy-pasted also, and that subsequent
> cvs commands leads to misunderstandings and sometimes
> even percieved loss of data. It was therefore with great
> sadness that I discovered that you much like CVS have
> a .svn directory in the source directories. You could say
> that this reflects a lack of self-dicipline, but I believe that
> unless an even easier way of doing stuff like that exists,
> this is what people do.

Depending on what OS you're working on and what settings
you have a copy-paste operation would not affect subversion.
The .svn directories are hidden on Linux systems and don't
get copied if you don't tell explicitely to do so. And the
.svn directories on windows are now hidden, so if you
don't have set the "show hidden files" option you won't
see them, can't select them and therefore they don't
get copied.

Stefan

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