Web Development

Link: http://linux.dtbaker.com.au/post/how_to_hide_svn_files_on_samba.html

Like David, I was looking for a way to hide all .svn folders because in the project I work we have a lot of symlinks.

Zend Studio has an SVN client but it corrupted the working copy when a colleague did an svn commit on a symlink exported through samba as a regular folder.

svn: Unsupported special file type '< ! DOCTYPE'

It was right... the SVN client committed a regular file instead of a symlink... and when you issued and svn update that error would hit you back...

Follow up:

So I was digging around for a solution... and at a given moment I've stumbled across David's post it was fine I had a working solution... but then it stroke me... I received a similar request when I installed a dedicated samba server as a primary domain controller for a company...

Needless to say that I've searched about one hour for credentials to enter into that server... but finally there it was... the solution:

[homes]
        .....................
        veto files = /.svn/
        .....................

It really made my day !

Thanks David... if it weren't for your post I wouldn't have looked back at that server...