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 keep unused > pristines around for awhile in order to reuse them instead of > re-downloading, e.g., for 'svn blame' where you currently need to > download a big pile of deltas for the file you're blaming. So the > accumulation of pristine files is intentional. But I don't _think_ > anything is currently implemented on that, so right now it's not a win.
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. > > 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 really an obvious time for such a warning to be > issued. This could also be announced in NEWS.Debian. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
