Re: How to avoid pristine copy for really big files?

On 9/4/07, Christian Convey <christian.convey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've got a project that has some really big binary files checked into SVN.
>
> The files are so large (relative to the amount of available
> client-side storage) that I'd really like to avoid having Subversion
> keep two copies of each file on the client side: one exposed copy,
> plus one pristine copy under the .svn directory.
>
> Is there any way I can get this down to just one client-side copy
> rather than two?

One way to do this is to do an 'svn export'. But that will mean that it will
not be a working copy where you can make changes to files and commit. If you
want to make changes by having a working copy, AFAIK, there is no way to do
it. You could try 'check out' of selective directories and 'export' of the
rest of them, if that is possible.

Regards,
-Hari Kodungallur
Received on Wed Sep 5 02:22:55 2007