On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:48 +0200, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > François-Xavier Coudert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Not that I know of. As Daniel Berlin said, Subversion 1.4 will probably > >> have support for checking out repositories with compressed local copies > >> (or no copy at all -- but I wouldn't suggest this, as you'd start to be > >> slow in "svn diff", "svn stat", etc). > > > > I guess no local copy would be fine with me. diff and stat should not > > be much slower than in CVS, and since very rarely do a full tree > > diff/stat, this is quite acceptable. > > Actually, once you get used to *immediate* reply to svn diff and stat, you > don't want to go back to wait for a few seconds. I know because it happens > to me all the time... > > > Is that so hard to implement that it's not done already? Or am I the > > only person to find that disk is expensive (or working on his own > > hardware, maybe)? > > Probably you're the only one finding disk space expensive. HDs are quite > cheap nowadays. Anyway, I'm sure SVN people would be happy if you help > finishing the summer of code project that was left undone, if you are really > interested in this. Personally I'm way more annoyed by the fact that the > local copy confuses grep, than the disk space it takes.
See subversion's contrib/client-side/wcgrep :) I use a modified version of that if i want to grep subversion dirs recursively.
