On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Joshua McKinnon <jmmckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Note that the difference is that now your pristines are shared. So if >> you have files in your working copy that are identical there is only a >> single pristine. Imagine a checkout of an entire repository, >> including tags and branches. For all of those files in your tags and >> branches that would are just duplicates of each other there is only a >> single pristine version stored now where as before every file had a >> pristine. > > Oh the new working copy format is absolutely great. The point is only > that the pristine files appear to build up over time, which seems new. > Any extra build up is removed with an svn cleanup, but I think a lot of > people (like me) will not realize they need to perform that step > regularly. > > I am actually in the process of doing an all-branches checkout right > now, to try and take advantage of the consolidation available in the > new working copy format. When using SSDs, disk usage matters. > >> I could not find any issue # for this either. > > If no one else replies within a few days, should I create an issue to > track this?
I filed an issue and updated the release notes: http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#wc-pristines -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
