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Re: Thoughts on user issues and how to attract the CVS user base...

From: Michael Price <mprice_at_atl.lmco.com>
Date: 2003-03-11 19:13:21 CET

Ben Collins-Sussman writes:
> > 1) Many of our users (students esp.) do not have vast amounts of disk
> > space, as your disk space vs. network bandwidth. Quotas are
> > generally tight in academic institutes unless good reasons
> > are given. Trying to persuade them to keep two copies of everthing
> > they check out is almost impossible, especially when they really
> > only wanted to check out a read-only copy to peruse!
> > Further we've all got network bandwidth coming out of our ears :-)
>
> I think Subversion 2.0 will probably have a revamped working copy
> library/model, or perhaps two of them... one optimized for disk, one
> for bandwidth. You're not the first person to dislike the cached
> pristine files. :-)

Yep. Whenever 1.0 is released and work starts on 2.0 features then will
the people who plan on revamping the working copy model PLEASE be sure
to include me. I will gladly spend obscene amounts of time working on
that issue as the number of filesystem operations needed to perform the
most basic of subversion tasks is now the only thing I dislike about the
program.

If I can get working copies that aren't painful to use over an NFS mount
then I'll dance a jig with a purple wig and let people film it for
posterity.

Michael

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