text-base - is it really necessary?

[André-John Mas <aj...@sympatico.ca>]

Hi,

I have recently started using subversion for some of my projects and 
noticed
that the checked out projects were taking twice the size of the 
original import.
A little hunting showed that the .svn/text-base folder contains what 
appears
to be copies of the orginal check-ins (their sizes are the same).

The issue causes me problems since I use my home computer for the 
repository
and a USB flash key-ring (128MB) to carry my working projects and what 
fitted
quite nicely now no longer fits.

I noticed that there was an issue opened in regards to this - issue 
525. I would
have voted for it, but I am not sure how. Does anyone know if this is 
something
that is going to be addressed?

regards

André-John

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Re: text-base - is it really necessary?

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

André-John Mas wrote:

> I noticed that there was an issue opened in regards to this - issue 525. 
> I would
> have voted for it, but I am not sure how. Does anyone know if this is 
> something
> that is going to be addressed?

It's a deliberate design we lay down 4 years ago:  optimize for network, 
at the expense of increased disk use.  It means you can run 'svn diff' 
offline, revert changes offline, and commits send much less data over 
the wire.

However, it has been discussed (to death) that folks want the option to 
have no text-base and/or a compressed one.  See issues 525 and 908, 
which are as old as the hills.  :-)

Yes, I'm sure someday these features will be added.  But my impression 
is that this feature isn't a high priority to any developer right now, 
because it essentially means rewriting the entire working copy 
library... weeks and weeks of work, and absolutely an svn 2.0 endeavor 
at the earliest.  It's not on any developer's "hit list" at the moment, 
and it isn't scheduled into any roadmap.  I guessing that it will be a 
long while before you see this feature added.

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