Re: The nonxml-entries branch

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
>
> Why keep the .svn/format file?
>
> A disappointing thing with nonxml-entries is that we keep .svn/format,
> at least for some minor svn releases. The reason for this is to let
> old clients give the user reasonably meaningful error messages when
> faced with a new working copy. It is better to say "your client is
> too old" than "This is not a working copy". We need to prefer
> usability to a small amount of disk space here.

What if, instead of moving the format number to the top of .svn/entries,
you got rid of the entries file and moved the pipe-separated entries
content to the bottom of the .svn/format file?

- Marc

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Received on Tue Apr 11 23:18:29 2006