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

Everyone,

Thanks for the information. It appears that this a well known topic and
others have requested this due to excessive disk space usage when placing
large files under SVN.

Please keep me posted on any developments concerning this issue.

Thanks again.

Sang.

On Feb 3, 2008 11:50 AM, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007b_at_ryandesign.com>
wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>

-- 
Sang Go.