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Re: Subversion branch deltification policy is more space-hungry than CVS

From: John Peacock <jpeacock_at_rowman.com>
Date: 2004-05-28 17:57:06 CEST

kfogel@collab.net wrote:

> John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> writes:
>
>>As I understand the cvs2svn issue, when a branch is created, the files
>>are _not_ copied from the trunk, so you wind up having fulltexts for
>>all branch files, not just for modified branch files. That is a big
>>problem.
>
>
> No, no, absolutely not. cvs2svn creates branches by copying.

If I am misremembering things, I'm sorry. I thought there there was a
problem where cvs2svn wouldn't get that right (perhaps when revivifying
dead revisions).

John

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