Re: wc-ng and a reference wc

Just a thought: the 'svn up' will copy all those pristines to the user area.
If it's faster to copy from the other device than within the same device
(where the working copy is), copying everything can be faster.

~Neels

Bob Jenkins wrote:
> Thanks Greg and Philip! Your secret's safe with me :-)
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Stein [mailto:gstein_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 4:36 PM
> To: Bob Jenkins; Philip Martin
> Cc: dev_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: wc-ng and a reference wc
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:36, Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>> "Bob Jenkins" <rjenkins_at_collab.net> writes:
>>
>>> they've established (many times with my
>>> recommendation) a "reference" working copy which is kept up-to-date and
>>> which individual users copy to create their own working copy. I fully
>>> appreciated that they would not be able to copy only a sub-tree of a
>>> working copy moving forward, but I've heard that maybe a working copy
>>> cannot be moved and therefore copied to another machine. Is that the
>>> case?
>> 1.7 is going to support centralised metadata in the root of the
>> working copy and copying that sort of working copy will continue to
>> work. 1.7 might also support metadata outside the working copy, if it
>> does it would be optional and copying that sort of working copy would
>> be more complicated. In either case I expect that copying a subtree
>> will also be possible, either via some sort of svn-detach script, or
>> perhaps an 'svn detach' command.
>
> To amend: I'm not sure that anybody has set aside time in the 1.7
> release for doing outside-metadata nor a detach command.
>
> Bob: your client should be able to copy the *entire* working copy,
> from the root (where the metadata is) on downwards. But they will not
> be able to copy subtrees. You would need to set up separate copy
> sources for subtrees of interest.
>
> It will also be possible to do a "shallow copy", as long as you get
> that root directory and its metadata. Hmm. In fact, that might be the
> fastest thing to do for your users:
>
> $ mkdir my-working-copy
> $ cp -r $SOURCE_TREE/.svn my-working-copy/.svn
> $ cd my-working-copy
> $ svn up
>
> Subversion should then "restore" every file and directory in the
> working copy from the pristines located in .svn (note that the cp will
> take a bit, since it is copying all the pristines; but the neat thing
> is taking advantage of svn's restoring feature, and that we can do it
> for dirs now, too).
>
> Okay. Now don't tell anybody I told you this "monkey with .svn" secret.
>
> :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -g