Re: [TSVN] NO bug: incompatibility between zipmagic and tortoisesvn

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:01:58 -0800, james sheldon <jsheldon@ucsc.edu> wrote:

> When ZipMagic 4.0's Zip Folders feature is turned on in Windows XP,
> it causes problems with TortoiseSVN. Zip Folders is a feature which
> treats a zip file like a folder in Windows XP.

ZipMagic 'lies' to all other applications about zip files. It tells
them that those zip files aren't really files but folders.

> For example, TortoiseSVN has trouble
> committing a .zip file to an respository, or updating a zip file from the
> repository. It seems to get confused, and think that the .zip file is
> a directory, when in fact it's a .zip file containing multiple files.

TSVN is not confused. It's ZipMagic that lies!
That's how ZipMagic works. It makes apps work with zip files as if
they were folders. And since that only works with all apps if the apps
can't even see the zip files.

> This is probably the expected behavior in this case, but it still seems
> as though it's a bug because it doesn't work properly. Perhaps Zipmagic

It's a bug in ZipMagic, not TSVN (sorry, but that's true).

> has some sort of interface or API for finding out if what appears to
> be a directory is really a zip file?

Even if it had: TSVN can't implement every API of every little App out
there which interferes with the system.

Stefan

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