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Re: Base text files, re: IRC chat

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:39:04 -0400

Just to be clear, Miha: that is not a design goal of the WC rewrite,
at this time. It will certainly be easier to do what you ask, but I
don't plan to specifically enable it.

Cheers,
-g

On Sep 18, 2008, at 2:47, Miha Vitorovic <mvitorovic_at_nil.si> wrote:

>
> dglasser_at_gmail.com wrote on 17.09.2008 16:07:24:
>
> > As this thread has gone on, I think I've lost track of the
> motivation
> > for centralizing the metadata beyond just the working copy root. I
> > understand wanting to be able to (optionally) centralize and share
> the
> > blob-store (since file contents/etc are likely to be shared between
> > multiple working copies), but what is the gain of combining the
> actual
> > working copy metadata itself? (More than "you can control where it
> > sits", which you can also do by replacing the .svn directory with a
> > symlink.)
>
> As I explained in another thread, there may be cases where the
> source files aren't on an actual disk and you can't create folders
> there. It has the potential to bring Subversion to places where it
> wasn't before.
>
> Br,
>
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Received on 2008-09-18 14:39:33 CEST

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