Re: The nonxml-entries branch

[Marc Sherman]
> What if, instead of moving the format number to the top of
> .svn/entries, you got rid of the entries file and moved the
> pipe-separated entries content to the bottom of the .svn/format file?

I'd hard-link the two filenames and fall back on writing a one-line
'format' file. Hard links, where available, are just a tiny bit more
efficient than symlinks. That would require

-AC_CHECK_FUNCS(symlink readlink)
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS(symlink readlink link)

in configure.in, and perhaps something a little fancier on win32 since
hard links are only available on NTFS and possibly the API to create
one is a little more involved than link(src, dest).