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

On Thursday 25 September 2003 13:43, Roland Bramm wrote:
> >How about this amendment to idea 2: as soon as the subversion client
> >encounters a .svn directory in an working copy on a windows platform, it
> >automatically converts it to _svn. Same thing the other way around for
> > every other operating system, and working copies would still be moveable
> > across plattforms. Second advantage of this approach: Existing working
> > copies on windows would silently be converted to the new syntax (as soon
> > as the user updates its client), making a new checkout or a seperate
> > conversion tool not necessary.
>
> Think of the chaos which can appear if you mount a "unix" volume with
> Windows and use svn or the opposite way ...

This should not be the problem, should it? But I see, where you are heading,
when you start mounting working copies, you also have the possibility of many
users using the same working copy simultaneously (even across platforms). I
never quite understood the purpose of this, but apparently some users are
working this way, and my proposal has the potential to break stuff then. Ok,
withdrawn ;-)

Michael Suess

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