Re: Does Subversion get slower over time?

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Cory Riddell <cory_at_codeware.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking about committing all the third party libraries that our
> application depends on to make it easier to checkout a buildable set of
> files from the past.
>
> Some of the libraries are around a gigabyte each. Right now our
> repository has around a decade of history and is 5 GB. If we start
> stuffing third party libraries into it, the repository could grow to 50
> GB in a few years. Is a 50 GB repository going to be significantly
> slower than our current 5 GB one?

I do not think so, but it will obviously make things like dump/load
and backups slower. Are you aware of the svn:externals feature? You
could just create a separate repository for your libraries and use
svn:externals to pull them in. That gives you the best of both
worlds.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/