David James <james82@gmail.com> writes:
> On 8/23/05, Joshua Varner <jlvarner@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/23/05, WOB <wayofbsd@verizon.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am keeping a bunch of my personal files in a Subversion database.
> > > Some of these files are large, and I think they are being stored twice
> > > on my client machines - one as the 'working copy' and again as the
> > > pristine 'base copy'.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to flag a file as "read-only", so that a 'base copy' is
> > > not stored in the hidden .svn directory?
> > >
> > Currently, No. There is some work going on to extend working copies
> > to allow this type of behavior, but it is in the early stages. If these
> > directories change rarely, you could try svn exporting those rather than
> > checking out the directories.
> WOB,
>
> Max Bowsher is working on "optional text-bases" as his Summer of Code
> project. If all goes according to plan, we will see this feature soon
> (perhaps in 1.3?).
Note that this is issue #525 in our tracker, too.
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Received on Thu Aug 25 23:50:32 2005