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Daniel Shahaf commented on SVN-525:
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The one thing I have to add to Karl's excellent reply is that we don't have to
figure out the user-facing aspects right off the bat; starting with a prototype
that has _some_ UI, just enough for devs and interested users to try the
feature out (no compatibility promises), would be reasonable. E.g., a
configuration knob that takes a space-separated list of
repository-root-relative paths could work well enough for prototype purposes.
We even have precedent for releasing features in a "no compatibility promises
for this specific feature/API" fashion: see, for instance,
<https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.11.html#cmdline>.
And yes, please introduce yourself on dev@ :-)
> Allow working copies without .svn/pristine/ cache (a.k.a. "text-base/" files).
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> Key: SVN-525
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-525
> Project: Subversion
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: all
> Environment: other
> Reporter: Ben Collins-Sussman
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: unscheduled
>
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> It's possible to make the cached pristine files in .svn/pristine/ optional.
> Doing so would be a huge storage savings on the client side, and would make
> Subversion even more compelling as a system for managing medium-large binary
> files.
> A much more technically thorough explanation of this issue and its background
> is available in [this 2020-12-29
> comment|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-525?focusedCommentId=17256056&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-17256056]
> below.
> (Note that the cached pristine base versions used to be stored in
> .svn/text-base/, so you'll probably see references to that old location
> throughout this ticket. Also, there used to be one .svn/ directory per
> working tree directory; later that was changed to one .svn/ directory at the
> top of the working tree. Knowing that might also help clarify some of the
> older comments in this ticket.)
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