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Subject: Re: 350GB SVN repo creates around 1MB revision for simplest task
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On Oct 12, 2010, at 17:45, FAISAL YAQOOB, BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN wrote:

> This all started when I noticed that my repository size is increasing =
at a daily rate of 1GB. I did a simple test. Created a branch/tag of an =
existing folder that had a size of 35KB. I took note of revision number =
and went to $REPO/db/revs/<K-rev>/rev-number/ and checked the size of =
the revision. It was 1 mega byte. That sounds fishy. Any ideas on what =
might be wrong here. My repo is about 350GB in size with about 600,000 =
revisions.
>=20
> P.S. I have already started a rebuild of the whole repository to see =
if that makes any difference but it will probably take days to complete.
>=20
>=20
> Question: Is there anything in svn that when it reaches a certain size =
every commit will be that large?

Are there a lot of files in a single directory? The file/directory =
structure is stored in each revision. (Not sure if that's the =
file/directory structure of everything or just of the directories to =
which the commit applies.)