Re: SVN dumps much bigger than CVS repository

Is it possible to get it smaller? For backup purposes over the internet
this can get quite big. The 57MB dump is bzipped still 12MB where the CVS
one is 5-6MB.

Florian

On 09 Jul 2003 16:30:46 -0500, <kfogel@collab.net> wrote:

> Florian Schulze <florian.proff.schulze@gmx.net> writes:
>> I would like to know why SVN dumps are sometimes much bigger than the
>> CVS repository from which they are generated. I have one which is 17MB
>> as CVS and 57MB as an SVN dump. The content is mostly text. The svn
>> repository is even bigger, but there are indices and caches I guess.
>
> Subversion dumpfiles use fulltext for every revision, no deltas.
>
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