Re: Query: svn externals and export

On Dec 11, 2009, at 03:58, Andrew Hardy wrote:

>> The time taken to bring down the data from the repository server to the client is identical whether you're doing an export or a checkout. Unless you're not talking about the transfer between the repository and the client, but between some other two systems (if so, please explain).
>
> I *thought* that when a checkout is performed, you get the source files that you requested *plus* a duplicate set put into the .svn directories (primarily into the text-base directory)? An export doesn't build the duplicate .svn directories?

The data is transmitted from the repository server to the client once, and the client saves the file in two places.

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