On 05.05.2014 06:56, David Balažic wrote: > Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> On May 4, 2014, at 15:46, David Balažic wrote: >> >>> Branko Čibej <brane <at> wandisco.com> writes: >>> >>>> It's not a question of SVN being fragile or not. The .svn/ directory >>>> is private to Subversion and you're not allowed to fiddle with it. >>> Servus Branko, >>> >>> related to this, is the name ".svn" reserved/prohibited? >>> What if I wanted to commit a bunch of files that would contain a file (or >>> folder) named ".svn”. >> That would not be supported. Don’t do that. > (I'm not subscribed, BTW) > > I did some quick tests with TortoiseSVN 1.7.14 (based on Subversion 1.7.16) > and while it refuses to add/commit the name ".svn", > I could rename an existing versioned object (both file and folder) from > another name to the name ".svn" and commit it (local repository). > > It is an old version, but if interested, someone can check this with the > latest software.
The subversion command-line client does not let you do this in the working copy, but does let you rename something to ".svn" directly in the repository. This is probably a bug ... -- Brane -- Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion WANdisco // Non-Stop Data e. [email protected]
