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Re: text-base penalty: A proposed solution

From: Scott Lamb <slamb_at_slamb.org>
Date: 2002-12-16 16:16:25 CET

Kean Johnston wrote:
> These are what I see as the negatives.
>
> o Thwarts tools like cscope that scan for all source files
> o Makes `find . -name \*.[cCh]|xargs grep SOMETHING` much less useful

You must be using a pretty old version. The text-base files are all
called .svn/text-base/*.svn-base now. So "find . -name '*.[cCh]'" no
longer pulls them up.

> o Uses exactly double the space, which is wasted in read-only
> environments
> o Doubles the workload of any directory-traversal tools
> o Doubles the inode count (this IS an issue!)

Scott

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