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?
Best wishes,
Chris.
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