Re: What to do with duplicates of files in test-base

On Feb 3, 2008, at 08:54, Andy Levy wrote:

> On Feb 3, 2008 1:43 AM, Sang Go wrote:
>
>> There are duplicates (or at least pretty close) of files in the
>> <example_directory>/.svn/test-base directory of files found in the
>> <example_directory>. The <example_directory> contains the latest
>> files.
>> What is exactly stored in this test-base directory and how can I
>> get rid of
>> them.
>
> You mean text-base, not test-base.
>
> Those are "pristine copies" used by Subversion for comparison to what
> you checked out, so that Subversion can transmit only deltas over the
> wire. They're also used for performing local diffs - without them,
> you'd need to talk to the server every time you want to perform a diff
> between what you've been working on and what's in the repository.
>
> You can't, and don't want to, get rid of them.

Well, you can't, anyway. Some might have reason to want to get rid of
it. There are already enhancement requests filed to have working
copies with no text-base:

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

Or with a compressed text-base:

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

But Subversion does not offer that -- not yet, anyway.

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Received on 2008-02-03 17:51:04 CET