Re: Basename matching during rename/copy detection

[Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 2007 June 21, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > would let people keep their copies.  What I was objecting to was the
> > idea that any repository with duplicate files was "stupid".
>
> FWIW I find it stupid, too.

Thanks very much.  Okay, as I've been put in the position of defending this, 
let me give you the use case that has cropped up for me to do this stupid 
thing.

I've got a GUI program with a load of tool buttons.  Each of those buttons 
will, in the final product, be unique images.  When I write the program, I 
want to be able to refer to each of the button images in the correct place.  
e.g.

 setImage( NewButton, "path/to/new-button.png" );
 setImage( OpenButton, "path/to/open-button.png" );
 setImage( SaveButton, "path/to/save-button.png" );

Unfortunately, I can't draw.  So, I open up gimp, draw a big red X and save it 
as new-button.png.  Then I copy that file to open-button.png and 
save-button.png, knowing that at some point in the future, someone will come 
and replace those red-X images with something appropriate.

All those images now go in the repository.  Symbolic links are not an option, 
as it's got to be checkable out on Windows.

Tell me what part of that is stupid?


Andy
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