Re: SVN dumps much bigger than CVS repository

Tobias Ringström <tobias@ringstrom.mine.nu> writes:

> But sometimes a svn repository is a lot larger. I converted a CVS
> repository contraining only 2 files. Both files are uncompressed tar
> files at around 2 MiB each. The repository has 90 revisions. The
> relevant sizes are:
>
> CVS repo: only 22 MiB.
>
> SVN repo with log files removed: 59 MiB
>
> The SVN repository is almost three times the size of the CVS
> repository. The main contribution is the strings db which is 58 MiB.
>
> Is this normal? I though SVN would beat CVS, especially for binary
> files such as these, not lose by a factor of three.

It sounds like something is seriously messed up here. How did you
'convert' the CVS repository?

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Received on Thu Jul 10 01:38:18 2003