Re: Subversion file name restriction

On Nov 21, 2009, at 06:44, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>> [...]
>> It helps to read the book....
>
> Thank you for your feedback. I shall try that.
>
> But on the other side, I want to make a small remark. The most
> important element of open source projects are their community. If
> there is no community, it means that there are no developers, and
> there are no users. Also from the community it stems something else:
> mutual non-profit help. By this I mean that if someone has a question
> (even the most silliest one), and he sends an email to the community
> mailing list, the usual outcome (depending on the community) is:
> * someone gives a polite answer correcting him, or pointing him to
> the correct place (like one of the repliers to this email has done);
> * he is ignored (usually happens with projects governed by
> elitists, which have forgotten that their were once newbies (I've seen
> a lot of these kind)); (and eventually the user will end-up RTFM, but
> mumbling because he has to loose a couple of hours reading the
> "Advanced" part of the (RT)FM just to clarify a very simple issue...)
> * or seldom someone just sends him to RTFM... (which is even worse
> than ignoring him in the first place, because now he's indirectly
> called an ignorant)...
>
> So my two cents opinion: rather than using an awesome tool, I
> would prefer to use a sh...ty tool, but with an awesome community...

To be fair, the Subversion community is actually pretty awesome. There are tons of people subscribed giving answers to tons of questions every day. Just check the volume of messages in the archives to see how big the community is. I answered your original email and provided you a link to a workaround for your issue within 9 minutes of you posting it; I think that's pretty awesome too.

Occasionally there will be a rebuke on the list (perhaps sometimes sounding harsher than intended) about not having read the book or a FAQ entry, but that's because the book is so thorough and well-written and even fun to read and the FAQ has so many pertinent answers in it. They really are worth a look and will increase your understanding of Subversion.

And once you've gotten used to Subversion's quirks (and what tool doesn't have some of those), I think you'll agree (if you don't already) that it's a pretty great tool.

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Received on 2009-11-21 14:07:20 CET