Re: Space wasting

> Is a textbase necessary for any SVN operation *as long as the
> file in the working copy has not been changed*? In other words
> Wouldn't it be possible/an option that textbase is just and
> only created when the original file is saved and cleared after
> the next commit? I suppose there would have to be a background
> process to take care of this.

How could subversion get informed about the fact that something
is saving (or even opening for write) the file? Automatically?
Very hard.

I found some idea of how to do it manually (only on *nix): one
can imagine that:
- the file body is created in textbase and marked read-only
- then the working file is created as symbolic link to the
textbase
- some svn command replaces readonly symlink with readwrite copy

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Received on Mon Mar 15 23:37:54 2004