unnecessary files in .svn directory

[Karol Szkudlarek <ka...@mikronika.com.pl>]

Hello!


I'm trying to persuade my collegues to change our cvs
productive repositorium to svn. And I am thinking that it
will be my success... :-)... but I have one complaint/request... :-)

In my opinion in .svn administrative directory should contain
only neccessary files. For example file README.TXT is redundant. And
.svn directory (in my opinion also :-)) is overcomplicated. It contains
too many subdirectories and many files with diffrent extensions for example
.svn-base, .svn-work. Maybe .svn requires some cleaning?

Redundant files are annoying very much when I am comparing two huge
directory trees (via external
diff program).

ps.

I am using 0.33.1 release server and client.

Many greets,

Karol Szkudlarek


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Re: unnecessary files in .svn directory

[Erik Huelsmann <e....@gmx.net>]

> >In my opinion in .svn administrative directory should contain
> >only neccessary files. For example file README.TXT is redundant. And
> >.svn directory (in my opinion also :-)) is overcomplicated. It contains
> >too many subdirectories and many files with diffrent extensions for
> example
> >.svn-base, .svn-work. Maybe .svn requires some cleaning?

> I think people have talked about fixing up the README.TXT thing, not 
> sure if it's going to happen pre-1.0.
yeah, we did. There were different opinions on the matter, but the one I
liked very much was to integrate the function of the format file into the
readme. The readme is a warning not to meddle with the administrative directories.
There was some discussion about using /dev/null (on unix) or NUL (on windows)
as a replacement for empty-file. That probably is not pre-1.0 .

The .svn-base files are required at least as long as we have locally
administered working copies. 

> >Redundant files are annoying very much when I am comparing two huge
> >directory trees (via external
> >diff program).
This seems the best solution you can expect for the short term...

bye,

Erik.

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Re: unnecessary files in .svn directory

[Mike Mason <mg...@thoughtworks.net>]

Karol Szkudlarek wrote:

>In my opinion in .svn administrative directory should contain
>only neccessary files. For example file README.TXT is redundant. And
>.svn directory (in my opinion also :-)) is overcomplicated. It contains
>too many subdirectories and many files with diffrent extensions for example
>.svn-base, .svn-work. Maybe .svn requires some cleaning?
>
>  
>
I think people have talked about fixing up the README.TXT thing, not 
sure if it's going to happen pre-1.0.

>Redundant files are annoying very much when I am comparing two huge
>directory trees (via external
>diff program).
>  
>
Tell your diff program to ignore .svn directories. For Gnu diff, use 
"--exclude=.svn".

Cheers,
Mike.


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