Re: collected vs distributed working copy metadata

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 09:17:31AM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
>...
> 2. It may be a bit harder to implement than just keeping all the
> metadata in one place (presumably in the top of the tree, or in
> a sibling of the top of the tree). I'm not sure about this,
> though, not having thought as much about implementing
> metadata-in-one-place as I have about per-subdir metada.

Given an arbitrary subdirectory, how does SVN know where the metadata is
located? Does it just start walking up the directory tree looking for it?
How about third-party tools to work against an SVN working dir? Do they
repeat the scan?

I'm in favor of the per-dir metadata. None of this central stuff because you
don't have a way to point to the dumb thing. (and if anybody suggests and
environment variable, I will personally beat the crap out of you :-)

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/