Re: Single-commit import with properties and SVN 1.7

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:30:43 +0000, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
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> 1. You could try to "svn switch" the workspace where you added the file tree
> to its own child. In theory, the metadata should be locally present already,
> so no network traffic is required. If SVN is smart enough to re-use the
> existing files, this could be a very cheap operation.

I would bet that svn 1.6 doesn't do this optimization, and I doubt that
1.7 will avoid refetching the data by finding out beforehand that copies
of them are already in the pristine store. The latter would be somewhat
clever, however. Would speed up 'normal' switches as well, at the expense
of more space being used for the pristine store (the latter being the
case for 1.7 anyway -- no pristine GC).

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800