What we did at UBZ

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:52:18 -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> Jan Hudec wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 13:53:31 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> >> On 15 Nov 2005, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr> wrote:
> >>
> >>> It's a relatively common naming convention to put a _ at the beginning
> >>> of an identifier to mean "the user shouldn't use such identifier" (not
> >>> for filenames, but typically in C++). Forbidding _ at the beginning of
> >>> branch names sounds to me to be an acceptable limitation (you
> >>> shouldn't forbid just "+storage" or "_storage", but "+*" or "_*" so
> >>> that future archive format can use "_whatever").
> >> I'd be happy with that.
> >>
> >> I think darcs allows you to have either .darcs or _darcs in the working
> >> directory; do people want that too.
> > 
> > On Unices it does not make sense. But on Windows there is some br0ken
> > software that does not like files with names starting with '.' lying
> > around. There even exists a modified version of subversion that uses
> > '_svn' for exactly this purpose. So it might make sense to support using
> > '_bzr', though it's not high priority.
> > 
> > --
> > 						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
> 
> Well, to this day in explorer you can't create a filename that starts
> with a '.'. If a program creates them, there isn't a problem, you can
> open them, etc. But you can't type the name in yourself. So if you ever
> accidentally rename it to something else, you can't rename it back with
> explorer. (I know cygwin works fine, and I believe cmd.exe will let you
> do it too)

That's not the reason for creation of the patched Subversion though.
I believe it was something about Visual Studio, though I am not sure about
the exact problem the .-files cause it.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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