Hi,
On 13 April 2010 11:52, Daniel Apostolov, Webrich Services
<apostolov_at_webrichservices.com> wrote:
> Dear Ivan,
>
> I believe that there are 3 file systems that support forks - NTFS, Apple's
> HFS and Novell's NWFS/NSS, thus it is not a Microsoft-specific feature. The
> amount of work required to implement it should be acceptable: acessing and
> modifying ADS files, at least with NTFS, is pretty simple. When accessing
> ADS files, the only difference is the naming, which is
> "regularfile.xxx:adsfile.zzz". The only complication comes with listing ADS
> files, but there is source code around, demonstrating how it can be done.
>
> I came to that idea, because for me the .svn folders are more or lass pain
> in the ass. First, I can never see the real size of my data, which would be
> fixed by using ADS. Second, searching through the working copy for files or
> text is significantly slower and often produces unwanted results. Third,
> sometimes it happens that part of the .svn folder tree is deleted by
> mistake, which causes SVN to get into a broken state, from which I usually
> recover by removing all .svn folders, backuping my current working folder,
> checking out and then merging by hand. I'm also not comfortable with having
> additional files and folders that are not a functional part of the web site
> under my web server's root, which interferes with one of the CMS systems I
> am using.
>
AFAIK SVN 1.7 is aiming to use a new Working Copy format that
concentrates all SVN related meta information into a single
file/folder at the WC top level. So most of your concerns should be
addressed in that way.
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Regards,
Jean-Marc
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