Florian Schulze <florian.proff.schulze@gmx.net> writes:
> 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.
Have you considered dumping ranges of revisions, instead of the whole
repository at once? You don't need to redump the entire repository
every time, for backups.
-K
> 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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