[[[ % cat ./repro #!/bin/sh set -eu
svn16=/usr/bin/svn svnadmin16=/usr/bin/svnadmin svn17=/usr/local/svn-1.7.10/bin/svn svn18=/usr/local/svn-1.8.0/bin/svn rm -rf r U=file://`pwd`/r $svnadmin16 create r $svn17 log $U >/dev/null printf '1.7: %s\n' "`ls r/db/ | grep node`" $svn18 log $U >/dev/null printf '1.8: %s\n' "`ls r/db/ | grep node`" % ./repro 1.7: 1.8: node-origins % find r/db/node-origins r/db/node-origins r/db/node-origins/0 % cat r/db/node-origins/0 K 1 0 V 9 0.0.r0/17 END % ]]] This came up in the context of an IRC bug report about 'svn log file://$PWD' taking a long time with 1.8. It is unclear whether the slowness of log is related to the creation of a node-origins cache, or whether those are independent problems.