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Re: does svn support one 'Centralized Metadata Storage' across diffent working copies ?

From: Ðìºè <icehong_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 22:30:12 +0800

Hopes this feature will coming soon , Thanks

2012/5/7 Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>:
> On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 10:13:11AM -0400, Andy Levy wrote:
>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Ðìºè <icehong_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > does svn1.7 support one 'Centralized Metadata Storage' across
>> > diffent working copies ?
>> > I have read the wc-ng design notes and found its talking about storing
>> > metadata according to the user's config, but I search a lot and found
>> > nothing about it , is it an developing feature ?
>> >
>> > I am working at a huge project managed by svn and usually keeping
>> > diffent branches of code the same time, I think if I can use one
>> > metadata it will save a lot of disk space, is it ture ?
>> >
>> > any reply is appreciate, thanks
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------------
>> > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/wc-ng/design
>> > According to the user's config, the metadata will be placed in one of
>> > three areas:
>> >
>> > wcroot: at the root of the working copy in a .svn subdirectory
>> > home: in the .subversion/wc/ subdirectory
>> > /some/path: stored in the given path
>> >
>> > -------------------------------------------------
>>
>> AFAIK, the current WC library can only store metadata at the root of the WC.
>>
>> Keep in mind you're reading notes on a design discussion, not
>> necessarily the *actual* design. Those notes were last updated over 2
>> years ago, about 18 months before SVN 1.7's release - so there's
>> probably quite a bit of outdated information in there.
>
> Sharing working copy meta-data between multiple working copies is
> planned for a future release. For 1.7 the goal was to create a new
> working copy library that supports all features supported by 1.6,
> and which allows additional features to be added in later releases.
Received on 2012-05-07 16:30:44 CEST

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