[svk-devel] [PATCH] giving $SVKROOT priority over .svk/

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:56:09PM -0700, Michael Hendricks wrote:
> Bernhard, the point you bring up is a good one.  Daniel referred to
> find_dotsvk not checking for a "floating file".  At the root of each
> floating checkout is a .svk directory that contains a file named
> "floating".  The original find_dotsvk code checked for the existence of
> this "floating" file to make sure that the .svk directory it found truly
> belonged to a floating checkout.  This was intended to prevent just the
> situation you mention.
> 
> The cost of checking for the floating file is roughly a couple stat
> calls.  I can't think of any reason to remove it.  If nobody else
> remembers, I'll be glad to add it back to the code.

If I don't, probably no one will - I removed it before I posted the
final version of floating support.  I think it should be added.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery