RE: Repository Size Confusion

> Hi Andy,
>
> Thanks for your help. The thing that was throwing me off was the
> compression. I had a 50Mb file among others and couldn't think how it
> could be only 20Mb. When I zipped only the 50Mb file, it went down to
> 5Mb, so it looks like the compression was what was causing the
> discrepancy.

Keep in mind there is more than compression.

For example, when you create a tag... it doesn't actually copy everything to the new folder, it just is a pointer.

So, if you check out your project root (not trunk) which includes 3 tags then your project will be 7x bigger than your repository because each tag is really a copy of another file plus the .svn contains a copy of each of those. So, 3 tag folders plus their .svn files plus the .svn files for trunk would make a 20GB repository check out as @ 140GB.

Of course, if you are only checking out trunk this doesn't apply.

BOb

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Received on 2010-02-18 21:05:31 CET