On 5 Jun 2026, at 15:46, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
It detected identical files not only in our /branches vs /trunk but
also among the pristine copies
I'm curious about this last statement. What do you mean with "among
the pristine copies"? Among themselves in one single pristine area of
a WC? That would be ... unexpected, since they use the SHA-1 hash as
their filename. So unless you have SHA-1 collisions in there, there
should be no duplicate files in there.
For example, given this folder:
```
% ls -la
drwxr-xr-x 7 sean staff 224 Feb 15 2020 .svn
drwxr-xr-x 5 sean staff 160 Feb 19 2025 branches
drwxr-xr-x 25 sean staff 800 Feb 11 14:56 trunk
```
I do a dry-run with the tool and it outputs:
```
using
./.svn/pristine/1e/1eb3de0f0fd4c1b67327614eb3db918f1a97e36d.svn-base as
the clone origin (first seen)
cloning to ./branches/2.5.x/Docs/UserManuals/Image.png
cloning to ./trunk/Docs/UserManuals/Image.png
```
In other words it has found 3 identical files. It does not matter that
their file names are different, their file contents are the same.
These 3 copies get reduced to 1 copy and 2 "pointers".
Sean
