Bug#731769: subversion: .svn/pristine size gets huge over time

2013-12-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-12-11 23:46:40 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > I hadn't thought of that. Certainly major behavior changes that affect > a lot of users, or affect global administration of services, should be > noted in NEWS.Debian. I'm not sure I'm convinced that this is such a > case. I don't want to in

Bug#731769: subversion: .svn/pristine size gets huge over time

2013-12-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-12-11 21:02:10 -0500, James McCoy wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:38:09AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2013-12-11 13:46:40 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > > > > [Vincent Lefevre] > > > > About (2), svn could warn the user when a cleanup could be needed. > > > > I don't know

Bug#731769: subversion: .svn/pristine size gets huge over time

2013-12-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Vincent Lefevre] > Well, the main problem with such unreferenced pristines is big files, > and very often big files are binary files, or one doesn't use "blame" > on them. Well, 'svn blame' is just an example. 'svn switch', switching between branches, is another case where caching pristines tha

Bug#731769: subversion: .svn/pristine size gets huge over time

2013-12-11 Thread James McCoy
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:38:09AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-12-11 13:46:40 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > > [Vincent Lefevre] > > > About (2), svn could warn the user when a cleanup could be needed. > > > I don't know what is the best solution. > > > > Right ... there's not re

Bug#731769: subversion: .svn/pristine size gets huge over time

2013-12-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-12-11 13:46:40 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Vincent Lefevre] > > A "svn cleanup" reduces the pristine size to normal, but > > 1. this isn't documented (I'm wondering how many users know that); > > 2. this isn't automatic. > > Right... I seem to recall that there is a vague plan to k

Bug#731769: subversion: .svn/pristine size gets huge over time

2013-12-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Vincent Lefevre] > A "svn cleanup" reduces the pristine size to normal, but > 1. this isn't documented (I'm wondering how many users know that); > 2. this isn't automatic. Right... I seem to recall that there is a vague plan to keep unused pristines around for awhile in order to reuse them inste

Bug#731769: subversion: .svn/pristine size gets huge over time

2013-12-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Control: severity -1 normal On 2013-12-09 16:32:29 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > It seems that the size of the .svn/pristine directory can get huge > over time. For instance, in an old working copy (up to date): > > ypig:~/wd> du -ks .svn/pristine > 3061456 .svn/pristine > > and after a fresh

Bug#731769: subversion: .svn/pristine size gets huge over time

2013-12-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: subversion Version: 1.7.13-3 Severity: important It seems that the size of the .svn/pristine directory can get huge over time. For instance, in an old working copy (up to date): ypig:~/wd> du -ks .svn/pristine 3061456 .svn/pristine and after a fresh checkout: ypig:~/wd-new> du -ks .svn