download without .svn folders, but being able to checkout

[Deni <fe...@gmail.com>]

I downloaded a repository, which is almost 1 Gb. Now the matter is that
Subverion makes these .svn folders, which contains a lot of files AND they
contain a copy of all of the files in the repository, so the whole thing
takes 2 Gb on my hard drive. And this is wasting of my free space, because I
don't want to commit to the repository, I just want to checkout.
I know that we have an "export" command, but if I download with that, then I
won't be able to checkout later, only if I download everything again.

So: I want to checkout anytime, but without having the .svn folders (or at
least not having the file copies), what is the perfect command for this?

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Re: download without .svn folders, but being able to checkout

[B Smith-Mannschott <bs...@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Deni <fe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I only checked out the trunk folder, of course.
>
>
> 2008/12/10 B Smith-Mannschott <bs...@gmail.com>
>
>  Checkout and export are your only options.
>>
>
I don't have any single trunk that's that big, but I think export (no
updates) and checkout (twice as big) are your only options.  Current work on
rewriting the svn working copy libraries will improve this situtation when
it's released.

You might look at svk. That gives you light-weight working copies at the
expense of keeping a local mirror of the repository on your system. That
might still be a net win depending on how compressible the contents of trunk
are.

// ben

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Re: download without .svn folders, but being able to checkout

[B Smith-Mannschott <bs...@gmail.com>]

Checkout and export are your only options.

Query: do you really *need* to have the *whole* repository checked out all
the time?

I've seen some geniuses try to check out the whole repository (this includes
all tags and branches!) at $PLACE_OF_WORK instead of just checking out the
trunks. The checkout died overnight after about 30GB.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Deni <fe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I downloaded a repository, which is almost 1 Gb. Now the matter is that
> Subverion makes these .svn folders, which contains a lot of files AND they
> contain a copy of all of the files in the repository, so the whole thing
> takes 2 Gb on my hard drive. And this is wasting of my free space, because I
> don't want to commit to the repository, I just want to checkout.
> I know that we have an "export" command, but if I download with that, then
> I won't be able to checkout later, only if I download everything again.
>
> So: I want to checkout anytime, but without having the .svn folders (or at
> least not having the file copies), what is the perfect command for this?
>



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// Ben Smith-Mannschott

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