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Re: Details for svn test repository
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:20 +0100, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:29:11 +0000, Joern RENNECKE
> <joern.rennecke@st.com> wrote:
> > Daniel Berlin wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >>Because svn keeps an extra pristine copy for checkouts, I'll have to use
> > >>svn export for
> > >>automatic regression tests.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >I don't understand why.
> > >Is this because of the amount of space the working copy takes up?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Yes. Sometimes stuff breaks and you don't notice it right away (E.g.
> > because the
> > feature is not automatically tested, or because of noise from other test
> > failures).
> > So it is useful to keep several month worth of test builds around.
> > Doubling the
> > amount of space taken up by this is not acceptable.
>
> If cp -Rl will not confuse svn,
I honestly do not know if it will.
If it does, and it's not too much of a hassle to make it *not* confuse
svn, i'm sure they'll include such a feature if i coded it up.
But someone would have to tell me what i need to code first :)