Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:26:03 +0300 From: Lena@lena.kiev.ua To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> Subject: Re: size of source tree Message-ID: <20140412122603.GB783@lena.kiev> In-Reply-To: <20140412170902.135294e4@X220.alogt.com> References: <mailman.55.1397304001.41635.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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> From: Erich Dollansky > > > 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? You can download entire source tree only (without .svn directory) every time instead of update, for example: rm -rf /usr/src svn export svn://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/base/releng/8.4 /usr/src Takes about 30 minutes.
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