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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Jan Evert van Grootheest <j....@euronext.nl> on 2003/09/24 15:06:29 UTC

working copy size

Hello,

I was inspecting my directories and found that working copies of SVN 
repos take a lot of space. Apparently, the .svn directory contains 
straight copies of the files stored in SVN?
I'm surprised that these are not zipped or somesuch!

I checked in the issue tracker, but could not find an issue/wish for 
this. Since I couldn't figure out how to enter a new issue, I request it 
here.

Please make svn compress the base versions of files that are present in 
the .svn subdirectory.

Thanks,
Jan Evert


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Re: working copy size

Posted by Jack Repenning <jr...@collab.net>.
At 5:06 PM +0200 9/24/03, Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I was inspecting my directories and found that working copies of SVN 
>repos take a lot of space. Apparently, the .svn directory contains 
>straight copies of the files stored in SVN?
>I'm surprised that these are not zipped or somesuch!
>
>I checked in the issue tracker, but could not find an issue/wish for 
>this. Since I couldn't figure out how to enter a new issue, I 
>request it here.
>
>Please make svn compress the base versions of files that are present 
>in the .svn subdirectory.


That's issue number 908 (these files are called the "text-base").
-- 
-==-
Jack Repenning
CollabNet, Inc.
8000 Marina Boulevard, Suite 600
Brisbane, California 94005
o: 650.228.2562
c: 408.835-8090

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Re: working copy size

Posted by Philip Martin <ph...@codematters.co.uk>.
Michael Wood <mw...@its.uct.ac.za> writes:

> What happened to the patch to compress the text base?

I like the idea, it's in my list of things to look at.  There were
issues with the patch, it used a .gz suffix on the text-base rather
than using meta-data in the entries file.  The compressed text-base
was not quite gzip compatible.  The author reported that not all the
regression tests passed.  The last message I saw from the patch author
was along the lines of "don't apply it yet, it's not finished".

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Philip Martin

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Re: working copy size

Posted by Michael Wood <mw...@its.uct.ac.za>.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:57:57AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Jack Repenning <jr...@collab.net> writes:
> 
> > > I was inspecting my directories and found that working copies of SVN
> > > repos take a lot of space. Apparently, the .svn directory contains
> > > straight copies of the files stored in SVN?
> 
> Also, read about why we do this here, in the book:
> 
>   http://svnbook.red-bean.com/html-chunk/apas03.html

What happened to the patch to compress the text base?  Was it ever
applied?  (And no, I can't check the issues, since I get an error about
not being able to call method prepare on an undefined value or
something.)

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Michael Wood <mw...@its.uct.ac.za>

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Re: working copy size

Posted by Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>.
Jack Repenning <jr...@collab.net> writes:

> > I was inspecting my directories and found that working copies of SVN
> > repos take a lot of space. Apparently, the .svn directory contains
> > straight copies of the files stored in SVN?

Also, read about why we do this here, in the book:

  http://svnbook.red-bean.com/html-chunk/apas03.html

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Re: working copy size

Posted by Jack Repenning <jr...@collab.net>.
At 5:06 PM +0200 9/24/03, Jan Evert van Grootheest wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I was inspecting my directories and found that working copies of SVN 
>repos take a lot of space. Apparently, the .svn directory contains 
>straight copies of the files stored in SVN?
>I'm surprised that these are not zipped or somesuch!
>
>I checked in the issue tracker, but could not find an issue/wish for 
>this. Since I couldn't figure out how to enter a new issue, I 
>request it here.
>
>Please make svn compress the base versions of files that are present 
>in the .svn subdirectory.


Actually, you might also be interested in issue 525 "allow working 
copies without text-base".
-- 
-==-
Jack Repenning
CollabNet, Inc.
8000 Marina Boulevard, Suite 600
Brisbane, California 94005
o: 650.228.2562
c: 408.835-8090

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