Thus wrote Eric Gillespie (epg@netbsd.org):

> Finally, if we are using old and slow platforms only to build and
> test themselves, we don't need working copies at all.  The svn
> export command is just like checkout, except it never creates the
> meta-data and text-bases.

If that is updateable, that mostly covers my concern. Not every user
wanting to track a branch needs to keep all the baggage just to
keep up to date.

regards,
	spz
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spz@serpens.de (S.P.Zeidler)