On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 08:38:13AM -0600, Kevin Puetz wrote:
> But svn keeps local copies of the pristine plaintexts, which allows
> status, revert, diff (against the base revision), and probably some
> others to be local-only operations, and lets commit send diffs instead
> of fulltext. It's a trade of WC size to increase the speed of common
> operations and reduce network bandwidth usage.
> 
fwiw, i think this is the reason, why the linux kernel guys are now
seriously considering copy-on-write semantics for hardlinks.

on another note, with an editor that detaches a modified file when it
writes it, one could save the copy, too. doesn't svn offer such a mode?

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