Am 26.10.2011 um 15:01 schrieb Pavel Sanda: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> Le 26/10/2011 14:37, Pavel Sanda a écrit : >>> i have painful experience with applications which scan neighbourhood >>> of the folders you are working in case you are working in networked >>> filesystem. one mount point freezes and unrelated application freezes >>> as well. >>> >>> considering that svn is used by small minority of people it looks >>> as asking for troubles for little gain. this small group need to >>> do extra steps to start using svn at all (eg manual checkout) >>> so asking for one more checkbox does not look so horrid. >> >> We could just check whether the .svn directory exists and say: "it seems >> that this file is versionned under svn. Enable svn support?" (or somebeter >> wording). > > the whole problem arised because "just checking" .svn dir in the current > folder > is no more possible with subversion 1.7. > > anyway i'm not going to fight this issue. it just feels wrong to launch such > machinery for file opening, in most cases useless and with possible > performance > impact. if its fine with others we can just apply Stephans patch.
To apply the patch does not stop anyone to make it more sophisticated when it comes to decide which version control system LyX should try and in what order and which bells and whistles to apply. I'd happily work on a simple solution to allow the user to adjust this with one RC-variable. If Vincent is faster with the presentation (and implementation) of his proposal I'm very pleased too. But I have the same feeling as Pavel has. It sounds wrong to try blindly every possible VCS on every file we are about to open. At the end of the day it's the sum of all not so expensive but unneeded operations what makes a fast application a slow one. Stephan
