Re: Space wasting

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 13:38:12 -0600, Alvin Thompson <al@thompsonlogic.com> wrote:
> the problem isn't deleting the .svn directory, it's changing the
> directory's contents in some non-deterministic way. this can (possibly)
> lead to corruption of your working copy or, worse, your repository.
> leaving the file in an opaque, atomic form would help protect against this.

Large monolithic binary files protect against corruption?

*scratches head*

How could modification of the .svn dir corrupt the repository, anyway? It might affect any patches
you generate with 'svn diff', but if you're super concerned about that, just diff against a URL,
bypassing the text-base completely.

I've had some .svn directories get lost, and subversion has stopped recognizing my directories as
working copies. So what? Just check out into a different directory and copy your files into the
fresh wc.

I think you're making too big of a deal out of this. .svn dirs getting munged is hardly a 'horror
story', as you put it.

-- 
Ben
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