Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 17:09:02 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: size of source tree Message-ID: <20140412170902.135294e4@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <5348F8AF.2080606@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20140412115423.11092d84@X220.alogt.com> <5348F8AF.2080606@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Hi, On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:26:23 +0100 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 12/04/2014 04:54, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > The source tree dated 26.03.14 has a size of some 899GM while > > today's source tree has some 1.8GB. > > > > Why is it suddenly so huge? > > > > How were these source trees obtained? A checkout from SVN will have a > .svn directory containing pristine copies of all of the files, which > will pretty much double the space requirement. > both have been obtained with svn. The smaller one was started last year with the then current version of svn. Is there an option to turn this behaviour of keeping a copy off? Erich
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