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

In a message dated: 24 Sep 2003 16:34:34 CDT
Ben Collins-Sussman said:

>The admin dir is #defined to '.svn', so in theory, it *could* be
>user-configurable, or just different on win32. But we had this
>discussion years ago, and wanted people to converge on a single
>interoperable standard.
>
>Should we forget the standard?

-1 to that! Stick with what works everywhere if you can. Going down
the road of accomodating OS-specific things will re-open the
MIME file-type debate, and then we'll have a code-base that looks
like the Linux source tree. One svn for ever OS :(
debate

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Seeya,
Paul
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