Don't checkout the full tree if avoidable
In most cases of branching, the tree is copied unmodified from the trunk
to the branch. When that is done, we can simply start with the parent's
index and apply the changes on the branch as usual.
[ew: rewritten from Steven's original to use SVN::Client instead
of the command-line svn client.
Since SVN::Client connects separately, we'll share our
authentication providers array between our usages of
SVN::Client and SVN::Ra, too. Bypassing the high-level
SVN::Client library can avoid this, but the code will be
much more complex. Regardless, any implementation of this
seems to require restarting a connection to the remote
server.
Also of note is that SVN 1.4 and later allows a more
efficient diff_summary to be done instead of a full diff,
but since this code is only to support SVN < 1.4.4, we'll
ignore it for now.]
Signed-off-by: Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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