Re: Space wasting

Adal Chiriliuc <adal@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Why doesn't SVN use a single folder? Why does it need 9 subfolders?

Partly for historical reasons. In the original implementation the
text-base and prop-base files used the same name as the working copy
files, and that's only possible if they use separate directories.
When the names changed the directory structure remained.

> Also, is the README.txt file or the empty-file really needed?

Probably not. README.txt was the original "this is a working copy"
file, today that the format file plays that role. I think that
SVN_NULL_DEVICE_NAME could be used instead of empty-file, but
empty-file predates SVN_NULL_DEVICE_NAME.

No doubt a redesign/rewrite would do things differently.

-- 
Philip Martin
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