Re: SVN Overwrite & .SVN size

On Nov 3, 2005, at 11:36, Mr keerti nayak wrote:

> 1. The whole source tree is about 2 GB in size. But
> unfortunatly after migrating to SVN when I tried to
> checkout the code, its around 8 GB in size. Thats
> mainly due to addition of .svn directories. Can I
> avoid this?

You cannot currently avoid this. The ability to have a working copy
without .svn directories has been requested:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=525

This was supposed to be a Google Summer of Code project this year. I
don't know if it got completed.

The ability to have the .svn directories compressed is also an
existing request:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=908

> 2. SVN doesnt provide over-write option when we need
> to checkout. In the current scenario I have some 10%
> source's checked in and the rest are provided by a
> third party. The code that is checked is used to
> customize the third party software. Hence only the
> files that is customized is checked in the SCM system.
> It doesnt make sense to version control the third
> party software. When I checkout I need to only
> over-write the customized code i.e. checkout on an
> existing folder. How is it possible through
> Subversion?

It is useful to version third-party code, and the process of doing so
is described in the book in the section on vendor branches:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html

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Received on Thu Nov 3 17:08:36 2005