RE: (SOLVED) Dropping old revisions creates larger repository

> If you had branches or tags or other copies of the revisions
> that you had deleted, the fresh repository would now
> replicate all of those files and thus take a lot of extra
> space. I would assume that there are a number of files that
> exist both in trunk and various tags/branches. Each of these
> gets bloated to its full size assuming that the original file
> was in the set of revisions you filtered out.

That makes sense. The early revisions in my sample included a lot of
branching, and I can see how that could bloat the repository. My cheap
copies got more expensive because I dropped the revisions that allowed them
to be cheap.

Now I feel better about this. Thanks very much, Steve. Erik

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Received on Fri Feb 2 22:21:55 2007