Re: How to avoid pristine copy for really big files?

On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Christian Convey wrote:

> I've got a project that has some really big binary files checked
> into SVN.
>
> The files are so large (relative to the amount of available
> client-side storage) that I'd really like to avoid having Subversion
> keep two copies of each file on the client side: one exposed copy,
> plus one pristine copy under the .svn directory.
>
> Is there any way I can get this down to just one client-side copy
> rather than two?

svk uses a different working copy format so will have only one copy
of the file, but you have a copy of the repository instead, so
there's still a cost. If you have multiple working copies checked
out from the same repository, then svk has a savings there.

Regards,
Blair

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