Re: What is the .svn/empty-file for?

> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:29:57AM +0100, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> > Subversion needs an empty input bytestream when sending files to its
> > server (and some other cases). That's what the empty file is used for.
> > Hope that answers your question?
>
> Now I'm intrigued.
>
> What's wrong with /dev/null? Or creating a temp file as needed? Why
> clutter up every .svn directory?
>
> Color me curious,
> Steve

/dev/null is less portable :-)

But also: are /dev/null, NUL: and all other device names referring to the
same principle guaranteed to return EOF immediately after opening the file?

FWIW: our compatibility guarantees don't let us remove it from the working
copies until 2.0....

bye,

Erik.

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