Re: Remove revisions from Repostory

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-07-20 21:26:05 CEST

On Jul 20, 2005, at 7:39 AM, Nguyen, Thuc Huu wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> . What will happen if we have a scads of revisions in the
> Repostory ? Does it make SVN server run lower and bigger ?

Slower? No.

Bigger? Yes. By definition, a subversion repository only ever gets
larger on disk, never smaller. The whole point of version control is
accumulate data, and never forget older data.

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