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Re: Proposal: svn:temporary property

From: Folker Schamel <schamel23_at_spinor.com>
Date: 2003-12-19 08:51:29 CET

>>Instead of really deleting the directory,
>>svn could rename it to something like .old.diretory,
>>but not generating an error.
>>Therefore, svn would never really delete data.
>>This behaviour would be also fine for svn:ignore I think,
>>without needing a new property.
>
>
> This approach creates the problem of some user (eg at a university)
> filling up their disk quota. The user, who is mostly ignorant of svn,
> then can not figure out why the system says they are out of space when
> they have nothing left in their account. Another similar scenario is
> a svn user temporarily forgetting about this feature as they try to
> clean out old cruft hogging disk space.
>
> Just consider these issues while designing and implementing a
> solution. (I guess renaming 'foo' to 'foo.svn-old' would be fine,
> since it wouldn't be hidden in any way)

Absolutely right. .old.direcory was stupid.

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Folker

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