Re: Extended Attribute Support (was Re: Mac OS X "resource fork" support)

On 2005-08-14 15:48:11 +0200, Branko Čibej wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >Yes, as properties. Isn't this similar to symlink support?
> >
> No, symlinks are represented as files, not as properties.

Well, with an additional svn:special property. I meant that even
though symlinks are not supported by some file systems, there's
a way so that Subversion behaves in a sensible way.

> >Another solution would be to use filenames with '$' since they
> >are forbidden in Subversion.
> >
> Huh? Since when?

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Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 10:08:51 -0400
From: John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent+svn@vinc17.org>
CC: dev@subversion.tigris.org, users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Spaces in Keyword Expansion

[...]
Don't do that (including '$' in a filename).
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> $ svnadmin create repo
> $ svn co file:///H:/brane/src/svn/scratch/repo wc
> Checked out revision 0.
> $ cd wc/
> $ touch '$foo'
> $ svn add '$foo'
> A $foo
> $ svn ci -m ''
> Adding $foo
> Transmitting file data .
> Committed revision 1.
> $ svn ls -v file:///H:/brane/src/svn/scratch/repo
> 1 brane 0 Aug 14 15:45 $foo

This could be seen as a bug.

Otherwise, if $ is really supposed to be supported in filenames,
what happens to the Id keyword?

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