Hello, I am a long term subversion user and use it in my everyday work. Sometimes happens to me that I checkout a local copy of some directory in the repository from a low speed modem connection, if the directory contains a huge file the download time can be extremely high. Because I am not particularly interested in this huge file for me is a waste of both time and disk space in my local copy laptop.
Generalizing the problem I think the required feature can be depicted as follows: the new feature (-maxfilesize=) is the maximum size a file must have in order to being brought from the server throught the wire. If a file is greater than such size then a file of several bytes in size is transmitted instead. This bridge file has the same name as the real controlled file, with some lightweight content that is recognizable by subversion. svn co -maxfilesize=200K $REP/trunk/dir src maxfilesize must remain sticky in the directories applied. svn up -maxfilesize=400K or svn up -maxfilesize=none would update the sticky value and replace bridges with full-content files. This way one could checkout trunk from a heavy repository, and start editing very quickly. thank you regards -- Marcos Mayorga FairLuck CO