On 03/06/2014 08:48 PM, Andy Levy wrote:
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:44 PM, jrm <j...@exa.com> wrote:
Working on some tools for a development environment that will make use of
SVN. There are circumstances where I want to create temporary information
of my own, related to checked out versions. Rather than cluttering up the
working directory with other special directories and files, I was wondering
how safe it might be to make direct use of the ".svn" directory for my own
purposes?
Aside from the existing purposed subdirectories - would it be safe to create
files in either "tmp", ".svn" proper, or a new subdirectory under ".svn"?
Do not do anything in the .svn directory. That directory is
exclusively for the use of the SVN working copy library and you could
easily break your WC.
Sure - if I overwrote something that has a genuine purpose - or created
something in a location where SVN expects exactly certain files to be.
But is SVN so fragile that it can't tolerate a differently named
subdirectory
or file under there?
Or has experience taught you to treat SVN as fragile?
