Re: Files with trailing dots on Windows

von Löwis Martin wrote:
> I'm not blaming Subversion for renaming the file. I'm blaming
> it for claiming that the file is not there, when it really is
> (although under a different name).

I think you are missing the point. Subversion goes to write a file to disk and
the operating system (in its infinite wisdom) changes the name of the file
without informing Subversion that there was a problem. The next time round,
Subversion tries to compare the list of filenames stored in the admin files with
the list returned by the OS and notices "Oh there is a file missing!" QED

It would not be good, performance wise, to try and hunt around for "files
stupidly renamed by broken filesystems" even if we encoded a few of the possible
reasons why a filename might be transparently mutilated (there's another reason
to add a full regex engine). There are a couple of things we could do (off the
top of my head):

1) drop support for native Win32 support (my favorite); :0

2) check for illegal filenames [for all platforms] and refuse to add them to the
repository (or less drastically refuse to check them out with a warning on evil
platforms);

3) admit that using native Win32 Subversion may always have some limitations
with cross-platform development (cf. renaming files in case only).

Guess which one is likely to meet the greatest approval within the project... ;-)

John

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