On 02.02.2012 20:22, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Hiroaki Nakamura] >> In option (2), we do n12n on all clients on all platforms, and we >> include web_dav_svn in "clients". So we convert all input paths to >> the "server encoding", which is NFC. > Indeed. But the very concept of a "server encoding" means we are > involving the server side. Which invokes a lot of difficult questions > like "what about existing 1.x clients", "what about existing checkouts" > and "what about existing repositories". > > By proposing a client-only solution, I hope to avoid _all_ those > questions.
Can't see how that works, unless you either make the client-side solution optional, create a mapping table, or make name lookup on the server agnostic to character representation. I can't envision how any of those solutions would work all the time. It would be nice if we could normalize paths in the repository without having to perform a dump/reload cycle, but I don't know how that would work in FSFS (BDB would be fairly easy, modulo collisions, but I don't think those are very likely). -- Brane
