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

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> It means I can't hand you my working copy. Why not? Because I just
> happen to use "7ex983p" as my admin directory names. I like it.
>
> "Oh, you want to read my working copy too? I guess you'd better
> temporarily configure your client to use that same admin directory
> name. You can change your configuration back later."

The other issue is that we treat this directory specially in certain
situations -- for example, import ignores it, other operations may
balk at working on it. If we also allow "_svn", then all those
conditionals have to change, and now we have *two* reserved names
instead of one. Third-party tools have to try *two* possibilities to
determine if a directory is a Subversion working copy or not... Where
does it end?

Violate the 0-1-infinity principle, pay the price.

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Received on Thu Sep 25 06:41:32 2003