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

pll@permabit.com wrote:
> 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.

Isn't the dot in .svn itself an artifact of "accommodating OS-specific
things"? In particular, accommodating a platform broken in such a way that
it needs obvious metadata like the hidden attribute embedded in the filename
itself...? ;-)

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