Re: Crazy 5-step plan to remove the cached pristine copy

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:50:01AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Why exactly would you want to remove the cached pristine copy ?
> Is it the disk space that's bothering you ?

Yes.

> It seems the disk space should be rather small: all unmodified files
> can be hardlinked to their pristine copy, so disk space is only needed
> for the few modified files.

What would be the use of that (assuming it can work cross-platform,
which it can't)?

You need the base copy when it is different than the working copy. You
can detect the working copy has not changed using a checksum.

> > 5. Change the commit/merge to send the whole working copy instead
> > of fetching a base copy from the server and send back the diff,
> > if the .svn does not contain the base copy.
>
> Does SVN send a diff when merging ? I thought the merge was done locally.

AFAIK svn merge uses the base copy.

florin

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