RE: Re: [rfc]Checkout without the .svn Directories

Rick Johnson wrote:
> For me, having the ability to have an updateable copy (I won't call it a
> working copy since no work would be done in it), that isn't twice the
> size of the exported copy would be great. It would either allow me to
> host twice as many sites on a particular server or halve the amount of
> data I'm backing up each night. Either of these things would lessen my
> administrative load and make me happy.

> I am very happy with Subversion and using 'svn up' to update a website
> is great but the amount of space the working copy takes up vs. the size
> of the site gets me down sometimes.

It's probably been discussed before, but if the text-base copies are
always going to be the same as the "real" files, surely a user
could do without the text-base altogether, and the contents could
be implied by the real files?

I'm thinking two implemenations: one script around the existing Subversion,
and the other being a feature request/patch to the Subversion client.

Hacky Script Checkout:
        Check out project
        Remove all .svn/text-base/

Hacky Script Update:
        Copy (or link) real files to .svn/text-base/${file}.svn-base
        svn update
        Remove all .svn/text-base/

Obviously the script would be an interim solution; the Subversion client
would ideally cope gracefully with a missing text-base on update by
either populating base through the real copies, or simply opening
the real files (instead of the text-base) when merging differences.

This kind behaviour could be implicit or explicit -- I can think of
arguments for either side.

Additionally, there could be an option to not create base copies in the
first place -- something like "svn checkout --no-base-copy".

Thoughts?

-- 
Robert Hunter
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