On 11.02.2012 13:05, Hiroaki Nakamura wrote: > 2012/2/9 Markus Schaber <m.scha...@3s-software.com>: >> Hi, >> >> Von: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@elego.de] >> >> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:20:14AM +0900, Hiroaki Nakamura wrote: >>>> [Upgrade options / backwards compatibility for proposed unicode >>>> normalization fix] >>> - Need to re-checkout existing working copies of the repository? >>> => Yes, but only if config is changed from the default. >> Maybe this could even be avoided if newer clients (or an utility script) can >> "upgrade" the working copy to the normalized format. > Yes, if the working copy does not have filename collisions. However, > for compatibility, > we cannot let newer clients upgrade working copies automatically > because existing > working copies may have filename collisions.
That's not entirely true, since we can detect the collisions in advance, and a partially upgraded working copy would still work >From a practical point of view, it's very, very unlikely that there would be any such collisions in a valid working copy. People would tend to notice. :) -- Brane
