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Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:54:52 -0500
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Subject: Re: SVN not usable on a Mac (#2464)
From: Hyrum K Wright <hyrum@hyrumwright.org>
To: Vitus Piroutz <vitus.piroutz@seeyou.at>
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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Vitus Piroutz <vitus.piroutz@seeyou.at> wro=
te:
> Just to file my frustration (to whom it may concern):
>
> As posted yesterday as a comment for issue # 2464 "Canonicalize / stringp=
rep UTF-8 filenames to handle composed / decomposed differences shown by e.=
g. Mac OS X HFS+".
> [Reminder: this BUG was originally filed on 2005-12-03 (currently is P2, =
unscheduled target milestone)!]
>
> After switching to a Mac and using SVN the first time on that platform, i=
 initially was impressed by the nice looking GUI's (e.g. Versions, Cornerst=
one, svnX).
> As i'm working in a mixed team (Windows, Linux, Mac) with international u=
sers, but using a german/english filled (huge) repository, i have to find o=
ut the hard way, that SVN is literally _unusable_ for Mac users if any umla=
ute (or non-ascii) characters are used in file- or directorynames.
> What a shame!
>
> Some replies from the support of my GUI-Tool (Cornerstone, as it stands n=
ow wasted money):
>
>> "I do understand your frustration, believe me. We have had a number of c=
omplaints regarding this matter but the responsibility for fixing this does=
 lie squarely with CollabNet et al, and I know that they have received more=
 than their fair share of mails from frustrated users in relation to this."
>
>> "No Subversion-offical fixes are available as of yet. As soon as they ar=
e, we'll make them available."
>
>> "This problem is most likely related to Subversion's lack of support for=
 files containing accents and diacritics. "
>
> So please provide a huge badge on http://subversion.apache.org indicating=
 to international users "Not for Mac users yet! (we can't handle your filen=
ames, but working hard since 2005 to fix this)"

The Subversion developers look forward to your patches which fix this
problem.  Since this is a high-impact issue for you, I'm sure you've
considered how to handle the millions of existing repositories in a
backward-compatible manner.

Best,
-Hyrum (a very satisfied Mac Subversion user)