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Re: Files with trailing dots on Windows

From: von Löwis Martin <Martin.vonLoewis_at_hpi.uni-potsdam.de>
Date: 2006-02-06 18:40:19 CET

> It's not hard to understand. Everyone here understands,
> they're just saying that the work required to fix this in
> Subversion is too great, so it's probably not going to
> happen.

Ah, that I can understand. I started the entire discussion
in order to get permission to post a bug report, and to find
out whether a patch would be acceptable.

> (But, if you could come up with a concrete design & even a
> patch for solving the problem, that would change things...
> maybe there's something we haven't thought of.)

So what about the properties that specify alternative
names? Multiple designs for that are possible:
1. support svn:filename.<filesystem>; the challenge is to
   find out what the filesystem is (e.g. use statfs(2)
   to find out).
2. support svn:filename.<operating system>; the challenge
   is to allow significant grouping of operating system
   names. However, supporting just the common cases
   (win32, posix) might be enough.
3. support svn:filename.<tag>, and support a wc configuration
   option filename-tag. Then, Windows users could specify
   filename-tag=win32, and the repository would specify
   svn:filename.win32.

Regards,
Martin

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