Robert Sfeir wrote:
> Been reading the svn manual, but can't seem to find the answer, and
> perhaps it doesn't exist.
>
> In CVS we used to be able to tag our repository on a certain day when
> we do a release, this effectively acted more like a marker to let us
> know we did something there, and we keep going. In Subversion tagging
> is like branching, except you don't write code to a tag beause then it
> becomes a branch, but it seems that it copies our whole repository
> into the tag part of the subversion repository. This is REALLY heavy
> considering our repository is some 20 gigs, and we do this process 3-4
> times a month.
It's a cheap copy, it doesn't really copy the entire 20 gigs, it's just
creating a pointer to the previous versions. Seriously, make a tag and
then look at the actual size of your repository on disk, it's not
actually doubling.
-garrett
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Received on Mon Jan 10 22:01:16 2005