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Re: Directories and svn

From: Jace Davies <jace_at_ish.com.au>
Date: 2005-02-06 23:57:23 CET

Thanks, everyone, for all your help!

I took a look at the known issue for this problem (didn't spot it when
looking frantically a couple of days ago - the link was much
appreciated), and it appears I'm not alone.

I'll just have to apply that manual workaround for the time being.

On 07/02/2005, at 1:05 AM, Jim Correia wrote:

> On Feb 5, 2005, at 2:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On 05.02.2005, at 17:03, Jeremy Pereira wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 4, 2005, at 17:13, Giles Williams wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mac OS X treats the entire package/directory as a TextEdit file.
>>>> Unfortunately, when the file is edited and saved in TextEdit, the
>>>> .svn directory is clobbered and removed - causing the problems
>>>> described in your email. The same thing happens to .nib
>>>> packages/directories edited in Interface Builder. This appears to
>>>> be a basic problem with using Mac OS X with Subversion, since those
>>>> Mac OS X applications that deal with file packages in this way are
>>>> not written to know that the .svn folder should remain.
>>>
>>> The interface builder problem is fixed. IB now understands about
>>> the .svn directory.
>>
>> I confirmed that this issue still exists in TextEdit in 10.3.7. Do we
>> know if a Radar bug already exists for this problem in TextEdit? I'd
>> be happy to submit one if necessary.
>
> Getting Interface Builder fixed probably solved the majority of the
> problem.
>
> A different way to solve the remaining problems is not to get each
> infracting application fixed, but to add opaque collection support
> into subversion (without going down the road of tar wrappers and all
> the badness that brought with it.)
>
> <http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=707>
>
> Jim
>
>
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