On 10/12/06, Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-svn-dev@farside.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:09:35PM +0200, Husterer, Thomas RD-CP1 wrote:
> > 1. Why don't these (kind of) functions use svn_io_temp_dir() ?
> >
>
> The main reason is because the same functions are called to generate
> temporary files that are atomically moved over the top of existing files
> in the working copy (and so they need to be on the same filesystem);
> creating them in .svn is a good way to ensure this.
>
> However, I think I'm right in saying that those functions are now (in
> the current trunk version of SVN) able to create temporary files in the
> system temporary directory if the caller requests it, enabling things
> like repos-wc diffs to work on read-only working copies. I'm not sure
> whether 'svn st -u' works yet, though.
'svn st -u' does that now for trunk as of r21904. The problem was that
svn st -u was creating a repository session which forcibly wrote its
temp files in .svn/ even though there is no need for this (read-only)
operation.
bye,
Erik.
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