Re: Cygwin repositories

On 12/13/05, Bill Baxter <baxter@olm.co.jp> wrote:
> Hi, I've got a bit of a problem in that I have both Cygwin-based svn
> directories, and non-Cygwin based ones on my Windows machine.
>
> The best possible thing would be if TortioseSVN would just work properly
> with the Cygwin repositories. (Right now it does some things ok, but
> chekins fail reporting that they can't find the repository named
> 'file:///c/some/cygwin/path').
>
> The obvious fix is to make svn work seamlessly with both Win32 and
> Cygwin repositories, but clearly that's not an issue for TortioseSVN's
> developers.
> However there are some things Tortiose could do to help:
>
> * One fix would be if TortioseSVN could invoke Cygwin's svn client when
> it recognizes Cygwin-like paths.

Completely wrong assumption on your side here:
TSVN does *not* invoke the svn client! It is directly linked against
the Subversion library, not the client program!

> * Short of that, I would be happy if TortioseSVN just didn't report
> Cygwin-based directories as being under SVN control. Or if it used some
> sort of special iconset to indicate "Hey yo! This directory is
> Cygwin-based, so you won't be able to do checkins and other stuff with
> these files".

How should TSVN know the difference?

Stefan

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