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Re: .svn directories (no doubt) revisited

From: Tim Hill <drtimhill_at_comcast.net>
Date: 2006-11-17 00:58:18 CET

>>
>> a_trunk/
>> svn/
>> ...
>> wc/
>> src/
>> something/
>>
>> This sounds good initially but fairly clearly introduces a fairly
>> significant condition. the .svn handling for folder 'something'
>> needs
>> to know that, rather than ./.svn/ it must look for svndata in
>> ../../../svn/... (or whatever the locative ends up being).
>
> Right. And that would seem to be a performance hit for using a
> working copy. Instead of Subversion looking in one known place
> (the .svn directory in the current directory), it has to look in
> potentially all parent directories to discover whether the thing
> even is a working copy.
>
>

I've used systems like this (perforce) .. Walking "up" the tree was
never a performance issue.

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