Re: Unable to commit a file of size 4GB to svn repo

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:30 PM, sathish Sarvepalli
<mirchisathu_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi TortoiseSVN Masters,
>
> Thanks for providing a great tool for windows.
>
> What I did?
>
> I wanted to add a new file into SVN1.5 repository whose size is 4GB. I used
> TortoiseSVN to add this new file.
>
> What I wanted to happen?
>
> I expected the file to get committed into the repository and give me a
> success message.
>
> What actually happened?
>
> I received an error message "413 entity too large".
>
> My environment
>
> Windows XP
> Tortoise SVN 1.5.6 32bit
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Thanks,
> Sathish
>
>
* What file system is used to store the repository (FAT32, NTFS, EXT3, ...)?
FAT32 has file size limit at 2GB. Barring that, older versions of APR
(Apache Portable Runtime), upon which subversion builds have a 32-bit limit
on file sizes.
* Are you accessing the repository locally (file:///) or through a server
(svn:// , http://, https://)?
* If you try to commit using svn from the command line, does the same error
occur?
* Are you sure you really need to be pushing 4 GB(!) files into your
repository? Everything committed to the repository is "forever". Even if you
later delete it, it will continue to take up space in your repository
because it'll continue to be available in older revisions of the repository.
That's not a bug. That's version control working as designed, but it is
worth being aware of.

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// Ben Smith-Mannschott
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