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Re: package/bundle support

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2004-06-21 19:28:04 CEST

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:04:40 -0400, Ben Rister <synk@decimus.net> wrote:
>
> The issue is that, particularly on MacOS X, there are times when you
> want a directory to be treated as an atomic unit. For the most part,
> there's no difference between this and the normal behavior, except when
> it comes to addition or removal of files, for which Subversion requires
> manual intervention. As these directories are usually managed by
> programs that have no idea they're involved in source control, doing
> this manually is not an option.
>
> This is handled by the "wrappers" extension to CVS by tarring up the
> directories, but because of Subversion's vastly better handling of
> directory structure, I'd imagine a more elegant solution can be used
> here.

That's issue #707, lots of people would love a solution for it, but
it's harder than it sounds ot implement, mainly due to the fact that
libsvn_wc is not the easiest bit of code to modify.

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=707

-garrett

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