Excessive Repository Size

[Alexander Klyubin <A....@herts.ac.uk>]

Hello!

I installed Subversion in order to see how it compares to CVS. To make 
the comparison I added a couple of projects contained in one CVS 
repository to a newly created Subversion repository. (I added the 
projects manually, since cvs2svn script did not work on my CVS 
repository for some reason.)


Now comes the strange issue. The size of CVS repository is roughly 100 
MB. The size of Subversion repository containing the very same projects 
is 206 MB.

I took a look 'db' subdirectory of the Subversion repository. Looks like 
the size of 'strings' file corresponds to the size of CVS repository. 
However, there are myriads of log.* files, 1 MB each (one for each 
transaction I made while adding the projects?). Are these log files 
necessary? Is it safe to delete them from time to time (e.g., before 
backup)?

Best Regards,
Alexander Klyubin


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Re: Excessive Repository Size

[Robert Pluim <rp...@bigfoot.com>]

Alexander Klyubin writes:
 > Hello!
 > 
 > I installed Subversion in order to see how it compares to CVS. To make 
 > the comparison I added a couple of projects contained in one CVS 
 > repository to a newly created Subversion repository. (I added the 
 > projects manually, since cvs2svn script did not work on my CVS 
 > repository for some reason.)
 > 
 > 
 > Now comes the strange issue. The size of CVS repository is roughly 100 
 > MB. The size of Subversion repository containing the very same projects 
 > is 206 MB.
 > 
 > I took a look 'db' subdirectory of the Subversion repository. Looks like 
 > the size of 'strings' file corresponds to the size of CVS repository. 
 > However, there are myriads of log.* files, 1 MB each (one for each 
 > transaction I made while adding the projects?). Are these log files 
 > necessary? Is it safe to delete them from time to time (e.g., before 
 > backup)?