Re: Suggestion: Property "svn:executable" result in set "Read & execute" permissions in Windows

On 2 June 2013 20:58, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While it may seem "widely used" to you, sharing working copies between
> OSes is strongly discouraged, not supported, and in some setups may
> result in things acting strangely or even WC corruption. This isn't a
> TortoiseSVN guideline - it's core Subversion.

Just to clarify, it is OK to access a working copy directory from
multiple OSes. The files are still just files. What you absolutely
must not do is use subversion clients from different OSes to act on
that working copy. The SVN metadata, and indeed the way different svn
clients treat things like line endings, differs and you can easily
mess up your working copy by doing that.

Core subversion could perhaps do more to protect itself here by
marking a working copy as being in Windows, Linux, Cygwin, Solaris or
whatever format and disallowing access by foreign clients. But that's
off topic for this list.

Simon

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