On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe_at_d.umn.edu> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I would like to use svn to manage some media files, however it appears
> that the working copy is going to be unacceptably large (on the order of
> 2 times the size of the actual files).
>
> % ls disk/album
> song_01
> song_02
> song_03
> song_04
> song_05
> song_06
> song_07
> song_08
> song_09
> song_10
>
> % svnadmin create repo
>
> % svn import disk/album file:///home/mzagrabe/repo/album -m 'import'
>
> % svn checkout file:///home/mzagrabe/repo/album working/album
>
> % du -sh disk repo working
> 52M disk
> 52M repo
> 104M working
>
> Is there a way to get the storage requirements of the working copy to
> (roughly) the same size as the "disk" requirements?
As Subversion is presently designed, no.
If you're just looking for a way to mirror/synchronize these files,
something built around rsync may be a better fit for you.
Received on 2008-06-16 22:19:41 CEST