On 13.07.2013 18:35, Bert Huijben wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:danie...@elego.de] >> Sent: vrijdag 12 juli 2013 18:20 >> To: Staton, Bradley D. >> Cc: users@subversion.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Files ending with . (dot) on Windows >> >> Staton, Bradley D. wrote on Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 15:31:07 -0400: >>> C:\tmp\playrepo\trunk>svn status >>> ? src\main\resources\fileEndingWithDot >>> ! src\main\resources\fileEndingWithDot. >> It'll be easiest to fix this after (or along with) the Unicode NFC/NFD >> issues --- the fix to that issue will install the infrastructure >> required to fix this issue. > I don't think this will be easy to fix as a final '.' is in many cases > silently removed on Windows, for backwards compatibility with the old 8.3 > names on FAT. > (Just check the apr sourcecode for normalizing paths to see the very ugly > details) > > So, yes it will be in the same category as the NFC/NFD problems... But while > for the NFC/NFD problems MAC/OS users might want to take a 20-30% > performance hit on 'svn status', I don't expect the Windows users to be as > willing for this very specific problem.
Where do you expect the performance hit to come from? I can't think of a good reason for it. -- Brane -- Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion WANdisco // Non-Stop Data e. br...@wandisco.com
