Re: .svn directories

> > 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.

$ cp -R /path/to/dir1 /path/to/dir2

will copy everything, including dot-files, as will

$ tar cf - /path/to/dir1 | (cd /path/to/dir2; tar xvpBf -)

Presumably, naive users will not be using the command line in
this way. However, their particular flavor of GUI might also
copy .svn/ files when doing a recursive copy.

Kumaran

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Received on Wed Aug 27 17:23:38 2003