Re: cvs vs svn repository size

> I have run a couple of tests -
> . A script to do 500 commits of random line of text to a file (fsfs):
> CVS Repository: 764k
> SVN Repository: 4.3M
>
> . A conversion of one cvs "repository" using cvs2svn:
> (trunk only, fsfs, ~15,000 revisions)
> CVS Repository: 109M
> SVN Repository: 614M
>
> Why am I seeing such bloated repositories? Svn is using 5-6x the disk
> space when I expected to see just the opposite.
>
> Is this a case where the changesets are small in comparison to entries
> list?

I do think this is an artefact of your contrived test.

An fsfs conversion of a 2.6GB CVS repository has resulted in a 2.0GB
SVN repository of 25,000 revisions.

Assuming commits are typically not single-file one-liners, we expect
this trend to continue (though our rate of revisions will increase as
we move to more branching and merging).

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Talden
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