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Kshitiz Sharma
Kshitiz Sharma

Reputation: 18597

Why does SVN take so much space?

I am working on a large sized project that is about 1020 MB in size. This is because, apart from the code, we have other resources, like graphics, XML configurations, etc. in the version control.

The size of the .svn-base files is about 998 MB, making the total checkout size about 2 GB. By my understanding .svn-base is meta information and its size shouldn't be that much.

Why does SVN need so much space?

Upvotes: 18

Views: 12390

Answers (3)

cxxl
cxxl

Reputation: 5379

If there are many updates to your working copy, it might grow in size, even more than the checked out contents might suggest. Running svn cleanup will free this space again.

Upvotes: 20

Lazy Badger
Lazy Badger

Reputation: 97270

For binary data, SVN stores the entire copy on every new revision, not deltas. Thus - you get big repositories over time. .svn-base stores the pristine state of the working copy - if you have a big working copy, you have the same size of pristine-data.

Upvotes: 0

user541686
user541686

Reputation: 210352

So that svn revert doesn't need to contact the server.

SVN actually stores another copy of the file locally. That's why the .svn dirs sum up to be almost as the project code base itself.

Upvotes: 15

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