von Löwis Martin wrote:
> 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.
Just a suggestion: ask yourself this: If *you* had to implement it,
would you really be ready to introduce and maintain such a rather
complex system? Are there any major benefits to this that you won't
readily get by just omitting the files from the Windows working copys?
(do you even need the files on Windows?)
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Received on Mon Feb 6 19:32:52 2006