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Re: unnecessary files in .svn directory

From: Mike Mason <mgm_at_thoughtworks.net>
Date: 2003-12-12 14:31:29 CET

Karol Szkudlarek wrote:

>In my opinion in .svn administrative directory should contain
>only neccessary files. For example file README.TXT is redundant. And
>.svn directory (in my opinion also :-)) is overcomplicated. It contains
>too many subdirectories and many files with diffrent extensions for example
>.svn-base, .svn-work. Maybe .svn requires some cleaning?
>
>
>
I think people have talked about fixing up the README.TXT thing, not
sure if it's going to happen pre-1.0.

>Redundant files are annoying very much when I am comparing two huge
>directory trees (via external
>diff program).
>
>
Tell your diff program to ignore .svn directories. For Gnu diff, use
"--exclude=.svn".

Cheers,
Mike.

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