On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 12:00 PM Julian Foad <julianf...@apache.org> wrote: > > Karl Fogel wrote: > > [...] there has to be some way for the user to specify at checkout > > time [...] > > Currently: "svn checkout --compatible-version=1.15". No feature name > involved. Not saying that's good, just that's the current state.
Are you saying this is how you would activate this no-pristines feature? If so, that sounds like a poor UX. As a user, I would not expect the version number to be connected to a feature like that Or more accurately, I could understand if you need a 1.15 working copy to enable a WC format that tracks whether or not pristines are available but I would not expect the version number alone to be the factor that makes this decision. Does that make sense? I have not followed every email on this topic but feel like I have lost understanding of what the feature will do. I thought the original goal was "I have a lot of large binaries, I would like to have a WC with no pristines in it" I thought that was also what the original PoC that Evgeny created did. He would fetch a pristine if he needed to (such as for revert) but he would not otherwise store it. Again ... just my understanding and recollection. One of your earlier responses seemed to indicate we are creating pristines and storing them at some point. What would be the scenario where the original user request would want that? Assuming I have a WC with large binaries: * I am not going to use diff * If I commit a change, I would like to just send the new file to the server and let it figure it all out * If I revert, yeah I will need a new copy sent to me * If I update, and do not have local mods, I will just get a new copy of file that replaces what I have * If I update, and have local mods ... less sure what should happen. Is this the scenario where you create a pristine? If it is not a file where we can do a text merge, then I guess I would just want my version of the file to remain and ideally not even get the new file sent to me. If I change my mind, I will do a revert. Personally, I think a toggle for the whole WC would be fine. And even if I have text files too, the handful of operations like diff where it downloads a pristine to do the diff might be fine as long as it works. Performance might even be fine. It sounds like this is not how it works? Mark
