Duncan Murdoch <mailto:murdoch@stats.uwo.ca> schrieb am Freitag, 3. März 2006 13:55:
> On 3/2/2006 5:45 PM, Richard Jolly wrote:
>> On 2 Mar 2006, at 18:51, Russ Brown wrote:
>>
>>> I've come to this thread a little late but I do have an alternative
>>> solution: use SVK as your client instead of svn. SVK uses a
>>> different working copy format that doesn't involve adding .svn
>>> directories to each and every directory in the working copy. In
>>> fact it doesn't add anything to the working copy: the working copy
>>> information is stored elsewhere.
>>
>> ... in ~/.svk
>>
>> Which has the nice effect that all the other unix tools don't
>> constantly bump into the .svn dirs. I'm curious why doesn't
>> subversion itself take this approach?
>
> I'm also curious, and have changed the subject line to
> hopefully attract
> more answers.
>
> I think there are some overly simple answers:
>
> 1. Because CVS did it that way, and SVN is a descendant.
>
> 2. Because SVN stores a duplicate of each working copy, and
> it's nice
> to get rid of both the WC and it's duplicate with a simple rm -rf.
>
> 3. Because the user who checked out the working copy may not be the
> only one to access it; it would be hard to synchronize
> multiple ~/.svn
> files without some sort of info stored in the working copy to
> point to them.
>
> But I suspect there are better answers...
>
> I also really like the idea of keeping a duplicate of the repository
> on disk as a reference the way SVK does, instead of just a
> duplicate of the
> working copy as SVN does. I often have two or three branches of my
> project checked out, so I suspect the total disk space would be
> comparable, but I'd have the advantage of being able to look through
> the history even when offline.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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One additional reason that makes the current way pretty convinient is that you can move a working copy in the filesystem with a single "move" or even copy it with a simple copy. You can even zip it and send it via mail and things like that, which comes pretty handy a some times.
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