Re: Mnemomic names for revisions

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>
> On May 3, 2005, at 12:52 PM, BRM wrote:
>
>> plus the size of the trunk head
>> in disk/db space for each tag.
>
>
> Incorrect. Copying a directory takes up (essentially) no extra disk
> space. The repository implements them as hard-links.
>
> You need to read this "cheap copies" box in this chapter of the book:
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s02.html#svn-ch-4-sect-2.1

I'm not positive, but could he be referring to space in a working directory?

-- 
Shane Turner, Senior Software Engineer | InfoInterActive Corp. (An AOL Company)
E shane.turner@infointeractive.com     | W www.infointeractive.com
AIM: iiaShane ICQ: 60761162            | V: 902-832-2633 F: 902-832-1015
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GCS d-(+) s: a C++$ ULS++$ P+(++)>+++ L+(++)$ !E- W+(++) N o? K--? w>$ O !M !V PS PE Y+ PGP t 5+() X+ R tv b+>++ DI D+ G e++ h---- r+++ y++++
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@subversion.tigris.org