Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Branko Cibej [mailto:brane@xbc.nu]
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:25 AM
>>To: Lübbe Onken
>>Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
>>Subject: Re: [BUG] The client can't use a different directory than .svn
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> <snip>
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>>It would also break our WC portability mini-feature (not sure how
>>interesting that is, though)
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> How does that work w.r.t. eol-style:native files right now? Do we even have
> this mini-feature in the presence of eol-style:native?
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> <snip>
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>>(On the other hand, it's a pity we didn't notice this ASP.NET/IIS
>>brokenness a year ago)
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> I'm trying to look into this more.
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> What sequence of steps (and what versions of software), does this not work
> with?
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>
> -- Kevin
The root of the problem is that IIS will show you .svn directories, but
refuses to let you into them. VSNet tries to enumerate files and
directories in web projects (through IIS) and dies when it gets to .svn
directories.
I looked at this a while ago as I knew we were going to hit it -- and we
are running into it regularly now. The previous thread ended (I think)
with the possibility of a patch being accepted (at least reviewed and
considered) if it enabled the client to handle either a '.svn' or a
'_svn' admin diretory name, and then create new admin directories with
the platform's preferred name.
The key function is v_extend_with_adm_name in libsvn_wc/adm_files.c, I
believe. However, this seems to be a heavily used function and putting
a check for the current admin dir name (potentially two checks) every
time it is called seemed like it could be expensive unless some caching
was done or something (perhaps I'm missing something obvious, of
course). I haven't had time to pursue it further than this brief
analyses, though.
Just changing the #define on Windows works, but breaks old working
copies (if no other work is done to upgrade them) and prevents them from
being used on other OS', although the utility of that is questionable it
sounds like.
Also, for what it's worth, I would prefer '_svn' to just 'svn' if it
comes to renaming the admin dir. Mostly just because it sorts
nicer...no really strong feelings, though.
DJ
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Received on Wed Dec 10 01:48:15 2003