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Re: Repository size not decreasing after deleting a file.

From: Erik Andersson <kirean_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:45:52 +0200

Hi

Yes, it is a feature, not a bug. The whole point of using a repository is
that you can always go back to a previous revision, so the file needs to
still be there.

Cheers / Erik

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Ravi Roy <ravi.aroy_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was curious to know if deleting a file from the repository also decrease
> the size of the repository, but this is not true.
>
> To verify this, I check the size of the repository before adding 30 MB data
> into into, after adding I again checked the size of the repository it is
> still the same.
>
> Is this known feature ?
>
> Thanks
>
> -RR
>
Received on 2010-04-20 10:46:24 CEST

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