On Dec 9, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2009, at 17:27, Leyendecker, Robert wrote:
> ...
> The reason cited in the FAQ for why this is not implemented is that it would take way too long for Subversion to scan every file in every directory of your working copy to figure out which ones have this special keyword in order to be able to update them. The Subversion client keeps no central database which could be consulted to know which files have the keyword, therefore an exhaustive and time-consuming search would be necessary. And since most users won't be using this keyword, the exhaustive search would have been done for nothing. This is changing with Subversion 1.7, however, wherein the working copy metadata will be consolidated in a single place* so I would think locating a file with a particular keyword should then become a quicker operation. Thus it should be possible to revisit this feature request after 1.7's release.
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> *as far as I know. Read more about WC-NG ("Working Copy - Next Generation") here:
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> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/wc-ng/design
Yes, wc-ng will have centralized metadata.
-Hyrum
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