I would think the "cheapness" of the WC <-> URL or WC <-> WC copies would be
proportional to the number of locally modified files and directories in the
source/dest working copies. I would think that subversion would only copy
the actual differences and not do a dumb copy.
-Steve
On 1/26/07 10:23 AM, "Markus KARG" <karg@quipsy.de> wrote:
> I am not an expert, but if you try to understand how SVN works, then the
> following should be true (also it matches my experience with SVN in the
> past years):
>
> Moves: A move is a copy with a delete, so it is cheap if the similar
> copy is cheap.
> URL -> WC and WC -> URL cannot be cheap, since you must push information
> over the wire to do that, obviously.
> URL -> URL is cheap.
> WC -> WC seems to be cheap (at least it needed less than a second for a
> 300 MB folder structure when I tried it the last time).
>
> HTH
> Markus
>
> Mark Lundquist schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> W.r.t. "cheap copies" in the repository... is it only URL -> URL
>> copies that are cheap? What about
>>
>> URL -> WC
>> WC -> URL
>> WC -> WC
>>
>> ???
>>
>> And how about moves? It seems like they could be cheap too, but I
>> haven't heard anything about 'em...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ‹ml‹
>>
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