RE: [TSVN] Re: Re: Re: Tag/Branch name checking suggestion.

Simon Large wrote:
..snip..
> What I mean is: for a remote repository, how do you know which bit of
> the URL is within the repository and which bit is part of the server
> file tree. For example:
>
> http://server.company.com/dir-a/dir-b/bad:name{}/dir-c/dir-d/file
>
> Now can you tell where the top level of the repository is in that URL?
No, I see what you mean.
> Maybe it's dir-c in which case there is no way that
> bad:name{} can ever
> be checked out to a Windows client. But maybe it is dir-b - then some
> clients could check out bad:name{}, but not on Windows.
There are two things I can think of, neither of which I like much.
1) Parse the string, adding a section at a time, using the path separator,
and interrogate that as a locator until you find a repository.
2) Separate the repo location from the path within the repo as two fields in
the gui.
Both are ugly and/or slow :-(

>>> In both cases it would be fairly easy to check for paths
>>> ending in CON,
>>> AUX, etc. Because almost no-one uses those features anymore,
>>> it would be
>>> easy to forget that they are still invalid filenames.
>> Which virtually guarantees that someone having trouble with it will
>> appear on the list :-)
>
> So it might be a good idea to warn them in advance?
Absolutely, but how do we get them to read the warning? :-)
Which is pretty much an eternal question I suspect - I've read a lot of
lists, newsgroups etc and I _do_ read documentation, search the web etc and
I still ask dumb questions - even when the docs are excellent you can't make
a user understand what he's read, if he's read it. Sometimes you need to
know the answer to realise that it was in the manual after all - MS are
really good at that one with a lot of their tools.
Mustn't stop trying though.

Bill

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