Re: Size comparison repository - working copy

On 1/8/08, gec9_at_swissonline.ch <gec9_at_hispeed.ch> wrote:
> The directory containing my SVN repository has 1.5 GB but after checkout the directory with the working copy has 18 GB! How can it be?! I was thinking that the repository and the working copy have roughly the same size.

Absolutely not: the repository uses all kinds of compression
techniques to store data as efficiently as possible (given some
computational limitations).

The working copy stores each file twice in order to support off-line
operation! BTW: normally you're supposed to check out only the part of
the working copy you're expected to work on (meaning that under normal
circumstances you're expected to have smaller checkouts).

HTH,

Erik.

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Received on 2008-01-08 10:04:23 CET