On Jan 28, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Stephan Beal wrote:

> Having empty text files "on platforms which do not support them" DOES 
> break the tree because the underlying files are now different (and 
> have different semantics) on different platforms. If i then copy such 
> a checked-out source tree over to my *nix box, it won't work as 
> expected (and other than that change, there are no platform-specific 
> parts of the repo).

I can give you a few examples of repositories which won't pass your 
cross-platform test. Here's one: add aux.c file to repository on 
Unix. Watch how you can't even open this repository on Windows. Same 
with NUL.txt or any other predefined reserved files on Windows.

--
Dmitry Chestnykh

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