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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Chris Frost <ch...@frostnet.net> on 2009/06/12 23:39:04 UTC

Re: Minimize the size a read-only working copy

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 02:48:36AM -0700, webpost@tigris.org wrote:
> I'm a beta tester for a software project written in Perl, in which I have no repository write ability.  Using SVN is convenient and minimizes the bandwidth and time needed for getting updates.  But at the expense of a lot of disk space.
> 
> I have no need to ever revert changes or update to old revisions.  One of the things making the working copy so large are the .svn-base files.  Is there any way to operate without these files and still be able to do svn updates without them?

If you are running Mac OS X or Linux you might checkout scord
(http://scord.sf.net/): it stores an unmodified svn checkout without
the working copy space overheads.

-- 
Chris Frost
http://www.frostnet.net/chris/