Re: .svn directories

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 04:14, Kumaran Santhanam wrote:
> My argument for a default separated meta-data approach for
> non-power users is that it reduces the chance for user error with
> respect to the .svn/ directories. In other words, these average
> users are not going to be doing the complex things described
> previously in this thread. They will often have one single
> working copy for each project, and very likely will be only
> working on one project on one machine at a time.

Are you sure ? I bet you'd be seeing a lot of "I moved my working copy and now
I can't do commits and updates" mails when the separated meta-data approach
is taken... the .svn directories avoids this problem and make it more obvious
for people that there _is_ meta-data (at least when they're not hiding
dot-files).

I personally like the .svn directories more than a separate meta-directory but
support for this mechanism is of course cool to have when you can switch
between both. But I don't think it to be the right decision to make it the
default (yet)...

C'ya,
        Marc

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Marc Haisenko
Systemspezialist
Webport IT-Services GmbH
mailto: haisenko@webport.de
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