Re: Repository Size

On Feb 26, 2007, at 06:48, Sebastian wrote:

> i've created a dumpfile from my cvs repository with cvs2svn.
> the size of the
>
> - dumpfile 64 MB
> - svn repository 6 MB
> - svn checkout folder 160 MB
>
> my question is: can that be or is there an issue? because the sizes
> are differing so much i cant believe that everything went
> right during the convertion.

Sebastian,

That sounds like it could be ok.

Like Ben said, the dumpfile includes each file, so it'll be big. But
the repository itself stores deltas, and compressed deltas at that, I
believe, so it should be much smaller, especially if you have many
tags or branches. In the repository, tags and branches are
implemented as cheap copies, so they don't take much space at all,
but in the dumpfile they do.

If you checked out your entire repository, including all tags and
branches (which would be an unusual thing to do, but possible), then
you would also get complete copies of each tag and branch, which
would take up space. And since Subversion stores two copies of each
file on disk -- once in a pristine form and once in a form that you
can edit -- that could explain why the checkout is so much bigger.

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