[Swift-devel] .backup files in SVN and case conflicts (fwd)

[Ioan Raicu]

Hi,
I simply did an add of the entire directory... sorry that backup file 
got in there... I haven't really tested any of the monitor code lately 
since the integration, so none of that stuff in monitor is really finalized.
Ioan

Ben Clifford wrote:
> meant to send this to list too - i know nika is playing with falkon 
> checkouts at the moment too.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:26:36 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk>
> To: iraicu at cs.uchicago.edu
> Subject: .backup files in SVN and case conflicts
>
>
> Hi.
>
> I just removed (in r1251) two files, GRAMClient.java.backup and 
> GramClient.java.backup from falkon/monitor/org/globus/GenericPortal/common
>
> Two files with the same name modulo case breaks checkouts on case 
> sensitive filesystems.
>
> I notice you added these in your recent round of commits. You shouldn't 
> put backup files in version control - the version control *is* the backup. 
> You can retrieve any arbitrary previous revision of any file from the 
> command line or from the web UI.
>
>   

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