The .svn/pristine/ directory should be recreatable given wc.db and a network connection to the server. I don't know if anyone has implemented that. (The main catch is that the pristine files need to be in repository-normal form.)
Niemann, Hartmut wrote on Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:21:01 +0100: > Hello! > > If I backup a working copy, the .svn folder and especially the pristine > directory there, where subversion stores the base version of each file, takes > lots of space. > > I used to exclude the .svn directory from this backup, but now I had to > restore my hard drive with all its working data and found it annoying to have > to recreate every working copy. > > If subversion could retrieve a broken or missing pristine file, which it > can't now in tortoise SVN 1.7.11, it would be sufficient to backup the files > in the .svn directory, which would save almost half the space. > > Is there any way to repair/refresh a pristine directory in subversion? Or is > a fresh checkout the only option? > > With best regards > > Hartmut >
