On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 11:56 +0200, François-Xavier Coudert wrote: > > Not that I know of. As Daniel Berlin said, Subversion 1.4 will probably have > > support for checking out repositories with compressed local copies (or no > > copy > > at all -- but I wouldn't suggest this, as you'd start to be slow in "svn > > diff", > > "svn stat", etc). > > I guess no local copy would be fine with me. diff and stat should not > be much slower than in CVS, and since very rarely do a full tree > diff/stat, this is quite acceptable. > > Is that so hard to implement that it's not done already?
No, it's just that it doesn't bother most subversion users, AFAICT. It's probably a bunch of stuff to slog through (Places assume the text base is always in the working copy, etc). Compressed working copy text base is certainly easier than no working copy text base. Without a working copy text base, you are more or less going to have to pretend the user asked entirely for remote operations, and just pull the versions from the entry file. Again, this isn't all hard, but it is work :) --Dan
