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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Masud Hamidi <mh...@becom.de> on 2005/02/17 14:01:01 UTC
Subversion .svn directories
Hello,
I'm using Subversion for a while, and before that I used CVS.
Subversion is great in many areas, but it has an unnessassary limitation.
The fact that it stores copies of each file in a .svn directory causes
side effects that are hard to handle:
- searching files (with grep or find) does also find the files in the
.svn directories
- when making tarballs or thelike, the .svn directories are included
One can workaround that in some cases by filtering, but sometimes you
first need
to "svn export" first. By searching for a solution I found many people
having
similar problems.
I have something in mind that could solve these problems, but it would be
a design change:
One could reduce the number of .svn directories to one per working copy,
sitting on it's root. It could have all the information of the .svn
directories in
a single .svn directory. The svn command is able to find the repository
information
of the current direcory by looking for the .svn directory in the current
directory first,
and then in each of it's parent directories, until it finds it or it
reaches the file system
root.
Is there a way to do it like this?
Or are there reasons that speak against my proposal?
Ciao, Masud
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Re: Subversion .svn directories
Posted by Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>.
On Feb 17, 2005, at 8:01 AM, Masud Hamidi wrote:
>
> I have something in mind that could solve these problems, but it would
> be
> a design change:
> One could reduce the number of .svn directories to one per working
> copy,
> sitting on it's root. It could have all the information of the .svn
> directories in
> a single .svn directory. The svn command is able to find the
> repository information
> of the current direcory by looking for the .svn directory in the
> current directory first,
> and then in each of it's parent directories, until it finds it or it
> reaches the file system
> root.
This has been discussed endlessly on the dev@ list in the past. It
would require a complete rewrite of the client (libsvn_wc)... so
probably not till at least svn 2.0. See issues 525 and 908, among
others.
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Re: Subversion .svn directories
Posted by Vincent Lefevre <vi...@vinc17.org>.
On 2005-02-17 23:06:49 -0500, Christopher Ness wrote:
> [nesscg@heidrun submission]$ grep -R --exclude *.svn* "\CN" .
One can also use Ben Reser's wcgrep script.
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Re: Subversion .svn directories
Posted by Christopher Ness <ch...@nesser.org>.
On Thu, 2005-17-02 at 15:01 +0100, Masud Hamidi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using Subversion for a while, and before that I used CVS.
> Subversion is great in many areas, but it has an unnessassary limitation.
>
> The fact that it stores copies of each file in a .svn directory causes
> side effects that are hard to handle:
grep and tar have --exclude flags.
> - searching files (with grep or find) does also find the files in the
> .svn directories
[nesscg@heidrun submission]$ ls -la | grep .svn
drwxrwxr-x 7 nesscg nesscg 4096 Feb 16 11:13 .svn
[nesscg@heidrun submission]$ grep -R --exclude *.svn* "\CN" .
./include/basestation/3.2.tex: \modReviewedBy{\CN}{15--2--05}{r324}
./include/basestation/2.1.5.tex:\begin{module}{2.1.5}{Output File}{\CN}
./include/basestation/2.1.1.tex:\begin{module}{2.1.1}{Configure}{\CN}
./include/template.tex: \modReviewedBy{\CN}{9--2--05}{r282}
./include/template.tex: {I agree with \CN~and have filed bug 12 in the
defect tracker for this issue.}
./mid.tex:\newcommand{\CN}{C.~Ness}
Binary file ./mid_prettyprint.pdf matches
> - when making tarballs or thelike, the .svn directories are included
tar --exclude .svn -czf ~/project-tags.tar.gz ~/repos/tags/
> One can workaround that in some cases by filtering, but sometimes you
> first need
> to "svn export" first. By searching for a solution I found many people
> having
> similar problems.
8-<
> Is there a way to do it like this?
> Or are there reasons that speak against my proposal?
I don't know, but these should be good workarounds for your specific
problems.
Cheers,
Chris
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Re: Subversion .svn directories
Posted by Tom Mornini <tm...@infomania.com>.
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On Feb 17, 2005, at 6:01 AM, Masud Hamidi wrote:
> The fact that it stores copies of each file in a .svn directory causes
> side effects that are hard to handle:
> - searching files (with grep or find) does also find the files in the
> .svn directories
> - when making tarballs or thelike, the .svn directories are included
>
> One can workaround that in some cases by filtering, but sometimes you
> first need
> to "svn export" first. By searching for a solution I found many people
> having
> similar problems.
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- -- Tom Mornini
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