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Re: Merge strategies?

From: Andrey Paramonov <paramon_at_acdlabs.ru>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:13:19 +0400

On 19.10.2011 14:00, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:22:05PM +0400, Andrey Paramonov wrote:
>> What about my other fears, bloated svn:mergeinfo
>
> The entire svn:mergeinfo property is stored in RAM and parsed from
> string form into a data structure (nested hash table) before it is used.
> With modern hardware, you'd have to hit svn:mergeinfo sizes that go
> into hundreds of megabytes before you'll notice any slowdown.
>

Hm, but this parsing occurs on every invocation of "svn.exe", or I'm
missing something?

>> and svn:mergeinfo conflicts?
>
> Have you ever seen a mergeinfo conflict? I haven't.
>

I haven't, too, because everyone uses --ignore-ancestry here ;-)

Thanks for your comments,
Andrey Paramonov
Received on 2011-10-19 12:14:05 CEST

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