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Re: svn disk usage

From: Chris Frost <chris_at_frostnet.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:34:05 -0700

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:43:29AM -0700, Kevin Grover wrote:
> > BTW#2: is there any way of saving space in the working copy,
> > eg. by kicking off seldomly used files in the back-copy ?
> > These files could be fetched on-demand (eg. on svn diff, etc).
> >
> > The point is: I normally check out the whole tree, including
> > all tags (for convenience), but almost never change eg. tags.
> >
> > A really cool thing would be having an svn filesystem, which
> > only presents what you're interested in (maybe the revisions
> > could also appear as subdirs, like in fossil) and really does
> > everything on-demand. It probably even would not need to have
> > double-copies of each file, since it directly sees the change
> > from the user.
> >
>
>
> A while back someone wrote a user space filesystem for Linux that does
> this. It was written so that he could manage his photo collection in
> SVN and not have a double space penalty on the working copy. I went
> looking for it and could not find it - I tried Google and the SVN
> Archives.
>
> It would manage all text-base versions using hard links until you
> tried to save a change to the original file, then it created a copy.
> Unfortunately, it's specific to Linux.

In case responding now will still be useful, the program's name is scord:
http://scord.sourceforge.net/

Note that scord only reduces the working copy overhead; it does not reduce
the disk space used by storing multiple svn branches.

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