Re: Disk space usage

On 10/5/05, Jon Bendtsen <jon.bendtsen@laerdal.dk> wrote:
>
> Den 5. okt 2005 kl. 17:37 skrev Paul Koning:
>
> >>>>>> "Ryan" == Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2005@ryandesign.com> writes:
> >>>>>>
> >
> > Ryan> A Subversion repository is stored as a sequence of diffs
> > Ryan> against previous revisions, and so is generally fairly
> > Ryan> space-efficient. I cannot comment on how Subversion's
> > Ryan> repository storage algorithm compares with CVS's.
> >
> > One data point:
> > CVS repository: 7.5 GB -- converted by cvs2svn yields:
> > SVN repository: 4.8 GB
>
> Thats funny, because i converted a CVS from 19GB which turned into 20GB
> subversion...
>

I am guessing here, but I think one of the factors (don't know how big
of a factor it is) is the number of files in the repository and number
of branches/tags.
In CVS, for each tag/branch, every file that is part of the tag/branch
will get an entry in their respective RCS file. Whereas in SVN a
branch/tag is one small file representing a link.

rgds

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-Hari Kodungallur
SpikeSource Inc.
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