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Re: .svn directories

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-08-27 23:16:51 CEST

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> John Locke <mail@freelock.com> writes:
>
> > With your patch, I should be able to do:
> >
> > 1. Download web site, import into Subversion.
> > 2. Check out WC to web server.
> > 3. Make my changes.
> > 4. Sync WC directly with production server.
> >
> > And then, after the client makes changes, all I have to do is sync my
> > WC with the public site, no more import/export and manual merging!
>
> Wow, you've completely lost me.
>
> I read about your 'pain', and the thought that immediately occurred to
> me is: my gosh, why isn't the "live" web site also a working copy?
> That would fix all your problems.

His claim is that he can't afford to (or just doesn't want to) waste
the disk space that .svn/ directories would consume. At least, that's
what his mail said.

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