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RE: ".svn" directory name no good (in fact, it is worse than I thought)

From: Sander Striker <striker_at_apache.org>
Date: 2003-09-24 23:51:43 CEST

> From: Ronald Cannes [mailto:roncannes@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:57 PM

> >>Do you:
> >>1) Know a work-around for ASP.NET projects?
> >>
> >svn export
>
> How is that going to help me? I need the project files to be under version
> control, yet have the virtual directory point to it. Some guys at the
> AnkhSVN project suggested creating a couple of batch files that you run
> before and after starting VS.NET (to rename .svn into something else and
> then back again.)
>
> But that is really stupid, yet nothing else works properly. I assure you,
> ".svn" is going to bite a lot of Windows users.

Not Windows users in general.

We had a report earlier about problems with using VS.NET developing WebApps.
The thing wants to mount a network share and then do 'stuff'. The 'stuff'
includes doing some magic apparently tripping over the .svn directory,
leading to an error message.

Sounds like a general case of VS.NET needing a fix IMHO.
 
> >>2) Plan to change the directory name to something Windows can handle
> >>properly in general?
> >>
> >Windows can handle it, the individual applications are the problem.
>
> Applications that *ship* with Windows cannot handle it! Try creating a
> ".svn" directory using the File Explorer. It won't work.

But mkdir via cmd.exe does. And Explorer displays it just fine.
 
> Also, some of the Win32 SDK functions cannot handle it, at least not the
> .NET version of those functions.

That's a shame and just plain broken. I'm kind of having a hard time
believing this to be honest.
 
> I see no reason why this shouldn't be changed this into something that works
> properly ASAP (given that this name is fairly localized in the code base)

.svn has been working for 2 years.
 
> "wc.svn" for instance? For migration purposes, both .svn and wc.svn could be
> supported for a while.

-1 to wc.svn or any other name that ends up in the middle of a sorted
directory listing.
 
> Please, fix this before it's to late. PRI 1 in my head.

Maybe when we get more reports...

Sander

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