Software configuration management

Software configuration management

Posted Feb 24, 2004 23:22 UTC (Tue) by aya (guest, #19767)
In reply to: Software configuration management by dwheeler
Parent article: subversion 1.0 is released

Re: Arch's "weird filenaming conventions", do you mean the {arch} directory? You shouldn't be touching that yourself any more than you should be touching the contents of CVS directories. I honestly can't think of any tla-created files that should cause problems in scripts, provided you know how to properly deal with strings that can contain special shell characters. (If you can't, I suspect you shouldn't be writing shell scripts in the first place.)

As for the POSIX problem, various people are working on making Arch work well with Windows; Tom Lord himself can't, and won't, but I doubt he would refuse patches for it to happen unless they were too intrusive. More likely, though, I suspect we'll see things happen like fixing cygwin to deal with long filenames consistently; sitting in #arch on irc.freenode.net, I've watched things like this happen.

I do agree, though, Arch should (and probably will) go through some shakedown time. Still, I use it for personal projects exclusively now, and really like the way it does branching. (I use that to develop features in their own branches as I feel appropriate, and then later just merge the changes into mainline.) Once 1.2 comes out, I'll probably switch on the new signed archives feature.

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