Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Paul Ebermann <Paul-Ebermann_at_gmx.de> wrote:
[...]
>> Is there any way to reduce the file number of the repository without throwing away
>> information? As in, throw the changes in revisions 0 ... 999 together in one file (and
>> this way even safe some space for better compression)? (I don't care for worse
>> performance, as those old revisions are used only very seldom.)
>>
>> I found nothing about this by extensive googling so I assume such a function is not yet
>> implemented. Is this really a new idea, or was it discussed before and rejected? Or is
>> there a simple workaround?
>
> Subversion 1.6 includes the svnadmin pack command which will convert
> every 1000 revisions into a single revision file.
Ah, nice to now, so I now only have to wait (or lobby) for the next software update on one
accessible computer. (The server works with older clients, IIRC.)
(Thanks also to the other answerers.)
(It shows I don't find the right search words.)
> It does not pack
> the revprops though, so it will only save you about 2000 files instead
> of 4000.
I think packing the revprops would (from a space viewpoint) be even more useful than
packing the revisions, since most of these are quite small (similar) text files.
Statistics: only 91 of those have a size of more than 150 bytes, the combined size
(including "file: size" like lines for each) is 356 KB, while they now use 2.56 MB due to
block size of 1K (= 7 times the space), even without any compression. And I would save
those 2000 files.
Paul
Received on 2010-05-26 19:08:03 CEST