I just joined this list to see what current thinking is on adopting some
alternative to hiding .svn directories in each directory. I checked the
archives since I'm sure this must have come up before but found nothing.
Hiding these directories in ./.svn breaks lots of thing that I rely on
heavily. In vim, I habitually use :e `grep -rl searchString .` to find
files containing searchString. But this picks up hits in .svn
directories, often lots of them, and if you accidentally change one, it
breaks that workarea. Hiding them elsewhere, like ../foldername.svn
instead of ./.svn, would avoid this landmine. Yes; I know about | grep
-v \.svn/.
On MacOSX, iWork's Pages word processor and Keynote presentation package
both use folders to package the various pieces of a document (xml, text,
graphics, etc). An excellent alternative to proprietary binary file
formats. But you can't use them do document software projects because
subversion inserts its stuff (.svn directories) inside them, which pages
and keynote automatically delete. I've filed an Apple bug, but expect
they'll claim its not their fault that bad things happen when other apps
insert arbitrary stuff inside iWork folders.
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Received on Thu Nov 16 14:18:04 2006