I filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4708 about this (after searching to see if anything had already been filed about it).
Best regards Karl Philip Martin <phi...@codematters.co.uk> writes: >Karl Fogel <kfo...@red-bean.com> writes: > >> Am I missing some subtlety about this? > >I think you are correct. I'm not really sure why we are not doing it >like that already, but it is a while since I looked at the commit code. >We do store the new pristine text-base before starting the post-commit >processing, we need to add metadata to that data "snapshot".