[darcs-users] DARCS and Microsoft Web Expression and Visual Studio assistance

[Gwern Branwen]

On 2008.05.16 14:00:33 +0200, Santiago Estrada Rubio <estrasan at hotmail.com> scribbled 3.9K characters:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on a Web programming project, I'm the solo developer of the project using Visual Studio 2008, and my coworkers are designers who use Web Expression (the new Microsoft HTML designer: a Frontpage descendant). We are all using DARCS and TortoiseDarcs for version control. As we work, there are some emerging issues that may be of general interest. Today, I want to comment some issues having to do with Web Expression automatic assistance and "metabase".
>
> Web Expression assists the designer maintaining automatically the links on the Web (such assistance and the metabase are optional). For example, when a file changes its name, Web Expression automatically changes the file path in all HTML links referencing the renamed file (anchors, etc.). To do so, Web Expression maintains a metabase in special directories called "_vti_cnf" and_"vti_pvt".
>
> It makes no sense to put under version control "metabase" directories and their files. To prevent these directories and its contents to be listed by DARCS as files to add, we include the following two lines in our repositories boring files:
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> _vti_cnf*
> _vti_pvt*
...
> Santiago Estrada

That's interesting. Do you know whether Web Expression is commonly used? If it is, are the special directories always under those two names? If yes, I think it might be worth adding them into the default boring files.

(Obviously we don't want to go around adding all possible files into the defaults, but you're at least one user who could use it, and I guess your coworkers add up to 3 or 4 other guys.)

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