Re: using multi-level directories in "svn:externals"?

On 8-Sep-05, at 6:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
> perhaps i missed it -- did we ever resolve the alleged issue of
> multi-level directory names in "svn:externals" doing bad things on
> macs?
>
> and whether multi-level directory entries were, in fact, what one
> would call best programming practise in the first place? or did it
> make more sense to always have svn:externals refer to a local
> directory. just curious.

I can confirm that using Windows style path separators in the
svn:externals directly names, does what you would expect/want on
Windows, but on a Mac the folders are created at a single level with
the backslash character in the name of the directory itself. For
that reason I don't like putting multiple levels in a single
externals definition.

What I haven't tried is if the standard unix path separator works as
expected when you check out on Windows.

Scott

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Received on Thu Sep 8 20:48:11 2005