On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:20 +0100, Richard Guenther wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:29:11 +0000, Joern RENNECKE > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >>Because svn keeps an extra pristine copy for checkouts, I'll have to use > > >>svn export for > > >>automatic regression tests. > > >> > > >> > > > > > >I don't understand why. > > >Is this because of the amount of space the working copy takes up? > > > > > > > > > > Yes. Sometimes stuff breaks and you don't notice it right away (E.g. > > because the > > feature is not automatically tested, or because of noise from other test > > failures). > > So it is useful to keep several month worth of test builds around. > > Doubling the > > amount of space taken up by this is not acceptable. > > If cp -Rl will not confuse svn,
I honestly do not know if it will. If it does, and it's not too much of a hassle to make it *not* confuse svn, i'm sure they'll include such a feature if i coded it up. But someone would have to tell me what i need to code first :)
