On Jun 7, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 7/6/2006, at 13:38, thomas Aylott wrote:
Using crazy characters in the names can potentially upset subversion.
It can? This is with LC_CTYPE set correctly? How does the problems manifest themselves?
We do use crazy glyphs in the default bundle items.
The only problem i've noticed with svn is the tab character. I've been naming a lot of stuff with tabs to line everything up nicely.
and since my svn server runs on a linux box, it can get even more upset when i try to do a checkout there.
hmm… I do not know what the de facto encoding for Linux file systems are. I could imagine that there is still a lot of stuff stuck with latin-1 or just “8 bit clean, but let’s show it as ASCII.”
I use dreamhost. I'm not sure how they configure everything. I wanted to add a subversion hook to do a checkout and then tar everything on commit. I'm a fan of the ellipsis (…)
SO
Can we change the way it makes the actual file system file names to
not use crazy characters even though they are in the names of bundle items themselves?
I actually did consider to do ASCII transliteration, because of all those who do a svn checkout w/o reading all the steps first ;) but then I also think that it’s a shame to cater to the common denominator, when Apple actually made our file system work with all unicode code points!
Personally, i think it should be the default behavior, but it could just as easily be done as a command.
I could maybe do it as a hidden option -- no sane Mac system should give a problem with this.
Works for me ;)