Evgeny Kotkov wrote: >Karl Fogel <kfo...@red-bean.com> writes: > >> 1) Make pristine text-base files optional. See issue #525 for >> details. In summary: currently, every large file uses twice the >> storage on the client side, and yet for most of these files >> there's little benefit. They're usually not plaintext, so 'svn >> diff' against the pristine base is pointless (unless you have some >> specialized diff tool for the particular binary format, but that's >> rare), and 'svn commit' likewise just sends up the whole working >> file. The only thing a local base gets you is local 'svn revert', >> which can be nice, but many of us would happily give it up for >> large files to avoid the 2x local storage cost. > >A proof-of-concept implementation of one possible approach for making >the text-bases optional is available on the branch: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/pristines-on-demand > >While still being rough on the edges, it passes the whole test suite in >my environment and seems to work quite well in practice.
if I'm not mistake, diff and revert are not possible when working offline? -- Lorenz
