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restoring a working copy from backup: can the pristine directory be recreated?

From: Niemann, Hartmut <hartmut.niemann_at_siemens.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:21:01 +0100

Hello!

If I backup a working copy, the .svn folder and especially the pristine directory there, where subversion stores the base version of each file, takes lots of space.

I used to exclude the .svn directory from this backup, but now I had to restore my hard drive with all its working data and found it annoying to have to recreate every working copy.

If subversion could retrieve a broken or missing pristine file, which it can't now in tortoise SVN 1.7.11, it would be sufficient to backup the files in the .svn directory, which would save almost half the space.

Is there any way to repair/refresh a pristine directory in subversion? Or is a fresh checkout the only option?

With best regards

Hartmut
 
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