Re: size of .svn/pristine directory (svn 1.7.x)

On 9 December 2013 21:55, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote on Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 17:30:21 +0100:
>> I noticed that the size of the .svn/pristine directory can get huge
>> over time (several times the expected size). A "svn cleanup" solves
>> the problem, but
>> 1. this isn't documented (I'm wondering how many users know that);
>
> It's documented in the 1.7 release notes.
>
> http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7#wc-pristines
>
>> 2. this isn't automatic.
>
> Yes, that's a known bug that we need to fix someday.
Btw it's not a bug for some use cases: Subversion doesn't download
files if user switches to branch and then back to trunk. Which is very
useful in some scenarios.

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Ivan Zhakov