Is Subversion's 'Lazy Copy' still lazy when overwriting a previously deleted file?
- by JW
Is Subversion's 'Lazy Copy' still lazy when overwriting a previously deleted file?
I store my externals in a separate folder for each version: i.e say for dojo I'd have:
webroot\
scripts\
dojo-v-1.0.0\
dojo-v-1.1.0\
etc.
By doing this, for me at least, I feel it makes it easier to switch over to a new version.
By only adding each new version i am not really giving svn the history it needs to do lazy copies. So one tactic I have used is to
svn copy over the old version over to
where the new one will be
then svn
delete that whole folder
then unpack my newer version into that place
then svn add them
The idea is to avoid having a massive amount of duplicated data in my repo.
I hope svn is looking at the new files and saying,
"hey, i already had this once, copied, then deleted...so i am only going to be lazy store the changes".
That was my theory - but does that happen in practice?
p.s. Yes I know an alternative is to set the 'externals properties on the folder' - but that's another question.
