Hello!
If I understood correctly, Subversion keeps a copy of
last-known-repository revision of each file in local directory. This way
svn diff and svn status can work without accessing the repository.
However, this means that working directory size is twice the size of
checked out files.
For big binary files which I don't usually change it is a problem
sometimes -- they effectively take up twice as much space on my
hard-drive. Is it possible to tell Subversion (by means of attributes,
for example) not to keep an original copy of a file or all files in a
directory. Naturally, in this case Subversion will have to consult the
repository more often. I would like to be able to decide for myself
whether I want to save disk space or network bandwidth.
It seems to me that the setting (whether to keep a local copy of a
particular checked-out file or not) should be on per-client basis. For
one and the same project some users may wish to reduce network traffic,
while others may wish to reduce hard-drive usage on their local machine.
Best Regards,
Alexander Klyubin
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Received on Fri Mar 28 17:01:27 2003