Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> writes:

| 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.

Hmm... but we would only traverse up, i.e. in the path we are already
reading the document from. How big can the networked-filesystems problem
be?

>
| 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.

The performance argument got to be bogus. Besides this is something that
can be done async. (or so I would think)

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   lgb

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