Concerning Re: understanding merge cost
Karl Fogel wrote on 10 Aug 2008, 10:41, at least in part:
> "Jan Hendrik" <list.jan.hendrik_at_gmail.com> writes:
> > Added up 150MB residing in the repository twice. Or is Subversion
> > aware that Steve's 50 origin in trunk and Slim's 100 origin in her
> > branch, making merge as cheap as svn copy is supposed to be? I
> > didn't find a word on this.
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2286
>
> Short answer: the storage is not shared in that case, and we agree
> it's a bug :-). Note that the issue has been started; see
Thanks, Karl. Seems we chose a bad occasion to branch for the
first time in years when branching for the development of a website
spin-off. Fortunately our numbers aren't as big as in the example
(yet), but nevertheless. (Back then [ver. .9 or 1.0] branching didn't
work when the EOL property was set, switching between
trunk/branch would amount for a complete checkout, so we never
used the feature again.)
Supposedly sharing storage accross branches will be quite difficult -
Slim might modify Steve's added stuff before merging back into
trunk, and Steve or someone else might branch off for work on the
same files ...
Jan Hendrik
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Received on 2008-08-11 11:20:45 CEST