Subversion and Mac specific things

[Alastair Houghton]

On 18 Jul 2007, at 21:54, Gregory Gerard wrote:

> What about adding a property per resource item? mac:rsrc-<hex  
> encoded resource type>-<hex encoded resource number>

I wouldn't be inclined to use it that way, especially if (as you  
imply) these can go up to 16MB in size (which fits the description  
"very large", I think).  It sounds like exactly the kind of thing  
that the authors of Subversion weren't expecting people to use  
properties for

Probably the best thing to do would be to use AppleDouble (i.e. "._"  
files) for the resource fork, because that would also mean that if  
you checked code out on e.g. Linux or Windows, the resource forks  
would stay with the files.

Of course, we also need to see if the Subversion people are doing any  
work on this front.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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