Re: Import and Commit and file modification times

Svante Seleborg wrote:

>But, since I happen to do .NET-development as well I first of all need a
>special build to work around some obscure Visual Studio-bug with directory
>names beginning with "dot". This is sort of off-topic, but why on earth
>can't this be made the supported behavior on the Windows platform, instead
>of making a custom explicitly non-supported build?
>
1) Why do you think we should fix Microsoft's bugs in SVN?

2) We're already working on this, it'll probably be in 1.3.

As to why those builda are not supported: search the mailing list
archives, there were lots of discussions about that.

> Just because Unix has a
>long tradition of hiding directories starting with "dot" from casual view
>(because of missing file-system features),
>
Ha ha ha. Missing filesystem features indeed. When the fastest Windows
FS is twice as slow as any normal Unix FS, I can damn well live without
hidden-file flags on Unix.

-- Brane

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Received on Wed Aug 17 23:34:39 2005