On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 02:23:06PM +0100, Dmitry Chestnykh wrote: > On Jan 28, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: > > > Having empty text files "on platforms which do not support them" DOES > > break the tree because the underlying files are now different (and > > have different semantics) on different platforms. If i then copy such > > a checked-out source tree over to my *nix box, it won't work as > > expected (and other than that change, there are no platform-specific > > parts of the repo). > > I can give you a few examples of repositories which won't pass your > cross-platform test. Here's one: add aux.c file to repository on > Unix. Watch how you can't even open this repository on Windows. Same > with NUL.txt or any other predefined reserved files on Windows.
This is actually not true. You can't open them in the win32 subsystem, the SFU subsystem isn't effected by the DOS legacy... Joerg _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
