On Aug 13, 2008, at 15:25, Chris Rodgers wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Aug 13, 2008, at 15:13, Chris Rodgers wrote:
>>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>> On Aug 13, 2008, at 10:24, Chris Rodgers wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to make a branch where all but a few files
>>>>> continue to follow the trunk?
>>>>
>>>> Not automatically, no.
>>>>
>>>>> This would be very similar to using "svn switch" in a working
>>>>> copy, but would allow one to check out the particular
>>>>> combination of trunk files and modified ones onto several
>>>>> machines.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was thinking of using this for configuration files in the
>>>>> midst of a bulk of code that remains the same on each machine.
>>>>
>>>> You can make a branch, then periodically merge desired changes
>>>> from trunk to the branch using svn merge.
>>>
>>> If I scripted this, what would happen to the disk usage? e.g.
>>> imagine I have 20 of these "live branches" following trunk. Will
>>> I use up 20x the disk space for every change committed to the
>>> repository?
>>
>> Maybe not 20x. A merge which results in a file being added should
>> take virtually no additional space as Subversion should record
>> this as a cheap copy. However a merge which results in a file
>> being modified will record the changes of the modification anew.
>> See this message from this past weekend:
>> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2008-08/0379.shtml
>
> Thanks for clarifying. I'm glad to see that other people are also
> interested in this sort of thing.
>
> Is there anything else I should do to suggest this as a bug /
> feature to be implemented?
As it says, the feature request is already filed:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2286
You can either wait for someone to write the code, or write the code
yourself, or pay someone to write the code. :-)
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