On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 14:54, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> > $ svn import vendor-1.0/ http://host/vendor/vendor-1.0
> >
> > $ svn cp http://host/vendor/vendor-1.0 http://host/myproject
> >
> > # weeks go by, I make small changes to 'myproject'.
> > # vendor releases new version.
> >
> > $ svn import vendor-1.1/ http://host/vendor/vendor-1.1
> >
> > # now we have two unrelated trees in the repository. no big deal.
>
> Ah, but the one problem with that is, given some of the sources I'm
> working with, that would mean two utterly huge unrelated copies -- the
> storage requirements, and the (theoretical at least) performance loss
> on doing the diff would be very high.
Ahhh, good point! It really would be nice if the 1.0 and 1.1 trees were
90% shared repository nodes. Much more space efficient.
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Received on Tue Feb 24 22:02:44 2004