On 02.02.2012 20:22, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Hiroaki Nakamura]
>> In option (2), we do n12n on all clients on all platforms, and we
>> include web_dav_svn in "clients". So we convert all input paths to
>> the "server encoding", which is NFC.
> Indeed. But the very concept of a "server encoding" means we are
> involving the server side. Which invokes a lot of difficult questions
> like "what about existing 1.x clients", "what about existing checkouts"
> and "what about existing repositories".
>
> By proposing a client-only solution, I hope to avoid _all_ those
> questions.
Can't see how that works, unless you either make the client-side
solution optional, create a mapping table, or make name lookup on the
server agnostic to character representation. I can't envision how any of
those solutions would work all the time.
It would be nice if we could normalize paths in the repository without
having to perform a dump/reload cycle, but I don't know how that would
work in FSFS (BDB would be fairly easy, modulo collisions, but I don't
think those are very likely).
-- Brane
Received on 2012-02-02 21:04:25 CET