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Re: Files take double the size, with the .svn folder

From: Jack Carter <hogan.s_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:02:02 -0700 (PDT)

Haha, that environment is the exact opposite of my environment.
Oh well I guess I will just haft to live with it then, thanks for all of
your help.

Jean-Marc van Leerdam wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 28 September 2010 08:09, Jack Carter <hogan.s_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there any way to disable the .svn folder, I guess it is for
>> repositories,
>> but it looks like it just keeps a copy of the what every is in the folder
>> that the .svn folder is in. And when you have large files it gets costly
>> on
>> the space.
>>
>
> No, AFAIK this is the required behaviour of svn. Without the local
> copies, the svn libraries are unable to perform all kinds of offline
> tasks (== tasks that do not require access to the central repository).
> SVN is highly optimised to work in environments where repository
> access is expensive (slow network connections) and local disk access
> is cheap (quick & lots of space available).
>
> --
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>
> Jean-Marc
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