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Re: SVN dumps much bigger than CVS repository

Florian Schulze <fl...@gmx.net> writes:
> I would like to know why SVN dumps are sometimes much bigger than the
> CVS repository from which they are generated. I have one which is 17MB
> as CVS and 57MB as an SVN dump. The content is mostly text. The svn
> repository is even bigger, but there are indices and caches I guess.

Subversion dumpfiles use fulltext for every revision, no deltas.

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Re: SVN dumps much bigger than CVS repository

Posted by kf...@collab.net.
Florian Schulze <fl...@gmx.net> writes:
> Is it possible to get it smaller? For backup purposes over the
> internet this can get quite big. The 57MB dump is bzipped still 12MB
> where the CVS one is 5-6MB.

Have you considered dumping ranges of revisions, instead of the whole
repository at once?  You don't need to redump the entire repository
every time, for backups.

-K

> On 09 Jul 2003 16:30:46 -0500, <kf...@collab.net> wrote:
> 
> > Florian Schulze <fl...@gmx.net> writes:
> >> I would like to know why SVN dumps are sometimes much bigger than the
> >> CVS repository from which they are generated. I have one which is 17MB
> >> as CVS and 57MB as an SVN dump. The content is mostly text. The svn
> >> repository is even bigger, but there are indices and caches I guess.
> >
> > Subversion dumpfiles use fulltext for every revision, no deltas.
> >
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Re: SVN dumps much bigger than CVS repository

Posted by Florian Schulze <fl...@gmx.net>.
Is it possible to get it smaller? For backup purposes over the internet 
this can get quite big. The 57MB dump is bzipped still 12MB where the CVS 
one is 5-6MB.

Florian

On 09 Jul 2003 16:30:46 -0500, <kf...@collab.net> wrote:

> Florian Schulze <fl...@gmx.net> writes:
>> I would like to know why SVN dumps are sometimes much bigger than the
>> CVS repository from which they are generated. I have one which is 17MB
>> as CVS and 57MB as an SVN dump. The content is mostly text. The svn
>> repository is even bigger, but there are indices and caches I guess.
>
> Subversion dumpfiles use fulltext for every revision, no deltas.
>
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