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Re: Space wasting

From: Daniel L. Rall <dlr_at_finemaltcoding.com>
Date: 2004-03-16 18:43:15 CET

Mark Eaton wrote:
> I personally love having the text-base files. It means that I can still do
> diffs of changes revert files even when I'm working on the train etc and
> don't have access to the actual repository.

Ditto. The ability to diff offline with a default SVN working copy (WC) is a
huge win.

> Maybe it would be possible to use
> some form of compression in the text-base but in general I don't see that it
> would provide any real benefits. The reality is that disk space is cheap why
> jump through hoops to save a little bit of space ?

Compressing the text base has come up before, and is a Good Idea. Having a WC
whose meta data more than doubles the size of the actual content the WC is
storing is annoying. I have literally hundreds of CVS WC's on my workstation
at home, and as cheap as disk space is, my time spent to upgrade to bigger
disks is not. Doing something about this greediness post-1.0 is completely
reasonable.

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