[jira] [Commented] (SVN-525) Allow working copies without .svn/pristine/ cache (a.k.a. "text-base/" files).

"Karl Fogel (Jira)" <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 08:34:00 +0000 (UTC)
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Karl Fogel commented on SVN-525:
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This will be fixed by the upcoming release of Subversion 1.15, with its "Pristines On Demand" feature; see https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.15.html for details.  Leaving the ticket open for now until the release is official.

> Allow working copies without .svn/pristine/ cache (a.k.a. "text-base/" files).
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SVN-525
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-525
>             Project: Subversion
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>    Affects Versions: all
>         Environment: other
>            Reporter: Ben Collins-Sussman
>            Assignee: Julian Foad
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 1.15-proposed
>
>
> It's possible to make the cached pristine files in .svn/pristine/ optional.  Doing so would be a huge storage savings on the client side, and would make Subversion even more compelling as a system for managing medium-large binary files.
> A much more technically thorough explanation of this issue and its background is available in [this 2020-12-29 comment|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-525?focusedCommentId=17256056&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-17256056] below.
> (Note that the cached pristine base versions used to be stored in .svn/text-base/, so you'll probably see references to that old location throughout this ticket.  Also, there used to be one .svn/ directory per working tree directory; later that was changed to one .svn/ directory at the top of the working tree.  Knowing that might also help clarify some of the older comments in this ticket.)



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