Re: performance enhancement by working copy svn server

On Apr 10, 2008, at 21:00, Harvey, Edward wrote:
>> The whole working copy would have
>> read-only permissions set by default; 'svn edit' would make
>> a file read-write.
>
> Actually, I think this sounds very reasonable (as an option; I do
> respect the need for people to continue working the way they always
> have before). It's a quick & dirty, easy simple technique to nearly
> eliminate the whole problem. No architecture dependent (well,
> minimal) code, which still (usually) creates the ability for the svn
> client to monitor all the file edits.

Yuck. At first blush, this seems to me a pretty unnatural way to work.

I'd much rather see this addressed at the file system level either by
copy-on-write or something like (apple's) fseventsd. I realize that
this is (way) out of scope for subversion, which needs a solution that
will work on any conventional file system. Pitty.

// ben

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Received on 2008-04-10 21:34:34 CEST