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

On 2013-12-10 12:12:06 +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 01:28:52AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > First, "svn help cleanup" currently says:
> >
> > cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
> > unfinished operations, etc.
> >
> > I suggest to change it to something like:
> >
> > cleanup: Recursively clean up the working copy, removing locks, resuming
> > unfinished operations, removing unreferenced pristines, etc.
> > In 1.7, we recommend to run "svn cleanup" periodically to reduce the size
> > of the working copy.
>
> Perhaps saying "to remove unferenced pristine copies of files" or
> something similar is clearer than "reduce the size of the wording copy"?

Or "to claim back the disk space of unreferenced pristines" like in
the release notes?

Though "remove unreferenced pristine copies of files" implies more
disk space, saying it explicitly makes it clear that the goal of
this operation is to free some disk space (in addition to rare
security reasons, in case a file with sensitive information was
added by mistake in the past).

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