Re: environment variable for location of the .svn directory ?

On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:22:03 +0000, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
...
> > (modulo externals). Having .svn outside the worktree isn't
> > relevant for me; my gripe with .svn is that the pristine
> > copies aren't compressed and thus generate matches in
> > 'find | xargs grep' (in the nonexistence of 'svn grep').
>
> Don't find or grep have options to ignore dot / hidden files?

Sure they have. But you'd need to teach a dozen tools
this trick instead of letting one place hide it better.

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800