On 4-Sep-05, at 10:50 PM, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Scott Palmer wrote:
>> On 26-Aug-05, at 12:38 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>> 2) regarding best practice, i note in the latest version of the book
>>> an example of externals:
>>>
>>> $ svn propget svn:externals calc
>>> third-party/sounds http://sounds.red-bean.com/repos
>>> third-party/skins ...
>>> third-party/skins/toolkit -r21 ...
>>>
>>> obviously, an external reference can represent a subdirectory
>>> multiple
>>> levels down, like in that last line. but i could swear i read
>>> somewhere that it's preferable to create the intermediate
>>> directories
>>> themselves and that externals should refer only to immediate
>>> subdirectories. am i just imagining this?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> No, this is a very bad idea. On a Mac this will create
>> directories with the slash in the name. They will all be at the
>> same level. The problem here is that the path separator is not
>> handled in a friendly cross-platform way.
>
> Huh? Can you to elaborate? Have you actually observed this on a
> mac? I don't understand.
Ah, sorry... if you do this on Windows using a BACKSLASH you end up
with folders with a backslash in the name on the Mac. The forward
slash MIGHT work properly when you check out on Windows.. I haven't
tried. The point is you can't use your platform's normal path
separator if you are on Windows... even though it appears to work
properly when you check out on Windows.
Scott
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Received on Tue Sep 6 00:43:03 2005