Just to file my frustration (to whom it may concern): As posted yesterday as a comment for issue # 2464 "Canonicalize / stringprep 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, Cornerstone, svnX). As i'm working in a mixed team (Windows, Linux, Mac) with international users, but using a german/english filled (huge) repository, i have to find out the hard way, that SVN is literally _unusable_ for Mac users if any umlaute (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 now wasted money): > "I do understand your frustration, believe me. We have had a number of > complaints 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 are, > 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 filenames, but working hard since 2005 to fix this)" Best regards Vitus PS.: i think i have to try Git next. ----------------- seeyou 3.0 ⎮ communication & technology consulting gmbh getreidemarkt 3/11 ⎮ 1060 vienna ⎮ austria t +43 1 5035380-50 ⎮ m +43 664 4167810 vitus.piro...@seeyou.at ⎮ http://www.seeyou.at
