On 2014-01-11 22:38:51 +0100, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 11.01.2014 10:30, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Moreover if you want to speed up things, keeping pristines may not > > be the right way (in particular if the whole files are kept, not > > deltas). > > FWIW, you can't reasonably store pristines as deltas because you'd have > to recalculate them every time someone changes the file in the working > copy; and moreover, there's no foolproof way to detect when the WC files > are being changed in time to do that. You'd need support from the OS > filesystem for that (and I don't mean just file change notifications but > copy-on-write per-file snapshots).
I meant deltas like in the repository (but see below). > > Caching the repository or a part of the repository may be better. > > That's exactly what pristines are. Not in a memory efficient way! For one of my working copy, a "svn cleanup" reduced the working copy size by about 2 GB, while the repository is only 1.5 GB. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
