On May 14, 2008, at 14:46, Holger Schulz wrote:
> Is there any compression active? I have a repository of 200 MB, a
> dump of that repository is about 270 MB. A working copy has mor
> than 500 MB?
The repository does store revisions compressed, and for each
revision, stores only the differences to a previous revision (though
not necessarily the immediately preceding revision; see the
documentation on the skip-deltas algorithm).
A dump file can contain each revision in full text or as a diff
against the previous version, which can give you greatly different
dump file sizes. I would expect a dumpfile to generally be larger
than the corresponding repository. Different versions of Subversion
have different compression in the repository. Subversion 1.4 and
later has better compression I believe. So if you dump a pre-1.4
repository and load it into Subversion 1.4 or later, the new
repository may be smaller on disk.
A working copy has a "pristine" copy of every file, and some other
administrative data, so it should be a little more than double the
size you might otherwise expect. The working copy has no compression,
though there is a ticket open requesting that this feature be added.
There is another ticket open requesting the possibility to have a
working copy with no pristine copies.
> How save is my data within that repository?
I'm confident that my data is safe in my Subversion repositories. Of
course a good backup plan is essential when using any software.
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Received on 2008-05-15 07:52:41 CEST