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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by "Robert P. J. Day" <rp...@mindspring.com> on 2005/09/08 10:39:16 UTC

using multi-level directories in "svn:externals"?

  perhaps i missed it -- did we ever resolve the alleged issue of
multi-level directory names in "svn:externals" doing bad things on
macs?

  and whether multi-level directory entries were, in fact, what one
would call best programming practise in the first place?  or did it
make more sense to always have svn:externals refer to a local
directory.  just curious.

rday

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Re: using multi-level directories in "svn:externals"?

Posted by Scott Palmer <sc...@2connected.org>.
On 8-Sep-05, at 4:51 PM, Joshua Varner wrote:

> On 9/8/05, Scott Palmer <sc...@2connected.org> wrote:
>
>> On 8-Sep-05, at 6:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>   perhaps i missed it -- did we ever resolve the alleged issue of
>>> multi-level directory names in "svn:externals" doing bad things on
>>> macs?
>>>
>>>   and whether multi-level directory entries were, in fact, what one
>>> would call best programming practise in the first place?  or did it
>>> make more sense to always have svn:externals refer to a local
>>> directory.  just curious.
>>>
>>
>> I can confirm that using Windows style path separators in the
>> svn:externals directly names, does what you would expect/want on
>> Windows, but on a Mac the folders are created at a single level with
>> the backslash character in the name of the directory itself.  For
>> that reason I don't like putting multiple levels in a single
>> externals definition.
>>
>> What I haven't tried is if the standard unix path separator works as
>> expected when you check out on Windows.
>>
>>
>
> It doesn't look like there is an issue for this. Should one be added.

I don't know.  Is it a bug?  What if I'm a bit twisted and I WANT a  
backslash in my path name on a Mac?

Scott

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Re: using multi-level directories in "svn:externals"?

Posted by Joshua Varner <jl...@gmail.com>.
On 9/8/05, Scott Palmer <sc...@2connected.org> wrote:
> On 8-Sep-05, at 6:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> >
> >   perhaps i missed it -- did we ever resolve the alleged issue of
> > multi-level directory names in "svn:externals" doing bad things on
> > macs?
> >
> >   and whether multi-level directory entries were, in fact, what one
> > would call best programming practise in the first place?  or did it
> > make more sense to always have svn:externals refer to a local
> > directory.  just curious.
> 
> I can confirm that using Windows style path separators in the
> svn:externals directly names, does what you would expect/want on
> Windows, but on a Mac the folders are created at a single level with
> the backslash character in the name of the directory itself.  For
> that reason I don't like putting multiple levels in a single
> externals definition.
> 
> What I haven't tried is if the standard unix path separator works as
> expected when you check out on Windows.
> 

It doesn't look like there is an issue for this. Should one be added.

Josh

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Re: using multi-level directories in "svn:externals"?

Posted by Scott Palmer <sc...@2connected.org>.
On 8-Sep-05, at 6:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   perhaps i missed it -- did we ever resolve the alleged issue of
> multi-level directory names in "svn:externals" doing bad things on
> macs?
>
>   and whether multi-level directory entries were, in fact, what one
> would call best programming practise in the first place?  or did it
> make more sense to always have svn:externals refer to a local
> directory.  just curious.

I can confirm that using Windows style path separators in the  
svn:externals directly names, does what you would expect/want on  
Windows, but on a Mac the folders are created at a single level with  
the backslash character in the name of the directory itself.  For  
that reason I don't like putting multiple levels in a single  
externals definition.

What I haven't tried is if the standard unix path separator works as  
expected when you check out on Windows.

Scott



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