All this to work-around a deficiency in VS.NET with ASP.NET projects?
So what that Windows Explorer cannot create a folder such as '.svn'? It can
be easily done via the command-line. Mention was also made of some Win32
API functions that don't handle these directory names either, but I also
notice that no-one came up with specific function names.
Sly
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From: <kfogel@collab.net>
To: "Ben Collins-Sussman" <sussman@collab.net>
Cc: "Files" <files@poetryunlimited.com>; <james-tigris@jrv.org>;
<dev@subversion.tigris.org>; <roncannes@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:51 PM
Subject: 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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