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Re: checking out mac resource forks

From: Richard Stephens <richard_at_createng.com.au>
Date: 2006-05-22 04:55:32 CEST

Hey,
could you please give me some more details about what exactly "date
fork resource files" are, and how i use them? How do I seperate one
from a file with a resource fork?

Thanks
-Richard

On 22/05/2006, at 1:44 AM, Dave Camp wrote:

> You are not supposed to directly access the ._ files as Mac OS X
> expects it's the only one that will be touching them, especially on
> 10.4. If you try to manage them yourself you will have problems
> like you have discovered.
>
> Your best bet is to move all of your resource fork resource files
> to data fork resource files. That will involve some minor changes
> to your projects, but it should be a one time change and it will
> allow you to use source control on your source tree.
>
> Dave
>
> On May 18, 2006, at 11:00 PM, Richard Stephens wrote:
>
>> Hey all
>>
>> I'm trying to set up subversion to do source control, and the
>> files we're using have resource forks, which are not checked in by
>> subversion.
>>
>> I found that if I created a read/write UFS disk image, and copied
>> the source to there, it could be checked in and the resource fork
>> would be maintained in the form of a file with the same name but
>> with "._" before it.
>>
>> Only problem is, when i try to check them out, it fails on
>> seemingly random files. It's always the "._" files, and they
>> check out fine on a windows machine.
>>
>> In an attempt to isolate the problem, I pulled out a few small
>> files that cause it to fail from the main source tree, and checked
>> them in. When I checked them out again, it failed. Renaming them
>> by putting a 2 at the end makes it checkout properly but this is
>> not a satisfactory solution.
>>
>> This is what happens on the terminal:
>>
>> imac-intel-2ghz:/Volumes/Untitled 1 Richard$ /usr/local/bin/svn
>> checkout svn://192.168.51.3/gworldstest wd/
>> A wd/._QuickTime Work
>> A wd/QuickTime Work
>> A wd/QuickTime Work/._Gestalt
>> A wd/QuickTime Work/GWorlds
>> A wd/QuickTime Work/Gestalt
>> A wd/QuickTime Work/._GWorlds
>> svn: In directory 'wd/QuickTime Work'
>> svn: Can't copy 'wd/QuickTime Work/.svn/tmp/text-
>> base/._GWorlds.svn-base' to 'wd/QuickTime Work/._GWorlds.tmp': No
>> such file or directory
>> imac-intel-2ghz:/Volumes/Untitled 1 Richard$
>>
>> Gestalt was included because i wanted to use a file which I know
>> did not fail.
>>
>> Any idea? Thanks in advance
>>
>> -Richard
>>
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