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Re: Size vs Focus WAS RE: ".svn" directory name no good....

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson_at_flatline.org.uk>
Date: 2003-09-26 20:49:39 CEST

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:53:08AM -0500, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> kfogel@collab.net writes:
> > Are there others? I don't know; I'm just speaking off the top of my
> > head here.
>
> 4. Go back to using 'SVN'.
>
> PROS:
> - CVS users are familiar with it.
> - works on all known platforms
>
> CONS:
> - won't be hidden on Unix (which hopefully means we can then
> removed all the extra code necessary for marking it
> "hidden" in Windows too -- code reduction, baby!)
>
> This one gets my vote.

Boo. We've already had to go around modifying build systems all over the
place to ignore .svn in the same way they ignore CVS and the like, so
that we can build out of working copies cleanly when it's useful. Not
again, please.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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