On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:07:50PM +0400, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: > In svn 1.7 there is pristine storage area in the working copy, where > all present files are stored by their checksums. If I understand this > pristine storage correctly, if you move a file remotely on the server > (svn mv URL URL) then when you update your working copy and both old > and new paths are in the same working copy, Subversion will find the > file in its pristine storage and won't re-download it over network. If > what I wrote is true (I have not verified whether this actually works > this way, but I have some hopes),
Unfortunately, that's not how it works. When a new file is added during an update, the entire file content is first spooled to a temporary file to calculcate its checksum. If a pristine with the same checksum is already present, the temporary file is deleted. (see pristine_install_txn() in subversion/libsvn_wc/wc_db_pristine.c)
