Re: How to Disable Pristine Copies in svn

On Aug 30, 2006, at 13:13, Aamir Yaseen wrote:

> I want to use SVN for revision control, but I have different
> repositories of different sizes ranging from 4 to 12 GB.
> My problem is that SVN is making backup of whole repository on
> client machine in the form of Pristine Copies, so it is causing
> the doubling of storage space.
>
> I have some repositories containing multiple files with size
> greater than4GB, and user can not afford to have additional 4GB for
> Pristine Copies.
>
> Can anybody suggest better alternate to save this additional storage?
> Is there anyway how I can disable this pristine copies feature? or
> any other comments?

The pristine copies cannot be disabled, yet. It's an open feature
request:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=525

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=908

svk, which is based on svn, stores working copies in a different way.
I'm not sure how it deals with the pristine copies but you may want
to look into it.

http://svk.elixus.org/

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Received on Wed Aug 30 17:04:17 2006