On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 06:34:17AM -0400, Paul Hammant wrote: > Or am I really wanting Svn's backend compression and deltification to be > out of band ? > > 1. compression-strategy = defer-to-idle-time-even-if-days-later > 2. deltification-strategy = defer-to-idle-time-even-if-days-later
That's indeed conceivable: compression/deltification could, in principle, be deferred to 'svnadmin pack' time, so a commit would create PLAIN reps (or DELTA reps against whatever base the client happened to choose) and a subsequent 'svnadmin pack' would convert them to skip-deltas DELTA reps. Wouldn't even require a format bump :-).
