I've been working on this patch for about 3 weeks, I wrote the first working prototype without any AI but I've been using Claude Opus mainly for code review and to help flesh things like the tests. I've been a professional C++ developer for 10+ years, so C isn't my primary language but I'm happy to put my name on this code. Learning the SVN codebase has been a bit of an experience though :D
On Fri, 5 Jun 2026, 14:49 Ivan Zhakov, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2026 at 14:57, Jordan Peck via dev < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> This patch saves disk space on supported filesystems for byte-identical >> file installation by utilising filesystem clone APIs. >> >> The main benefit is reduced disk space usage during checkout, update, and >> other working-copy file installs on filesystems that support >> copy-on-write/block cloning. When the working file is byte-identical to the >> pristine file, Subversion can install it by copying or reflinking from the >> pristine instead of storing two independent physical copies of the same >> bytes. >> >> [..] > >> >> Let me know what you think, questions welcome! >> >> Just out of curiosity, was this patch by any chance created with AI/LLM? > > -- > Ivan Zhakov >
