On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:29:11 +0000, Joern RENNECKE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > > > > >>Because svn keeps an extra pristine copy for checkouts, I'll have to use > >>svn export for > >>automatic regression tests. > >> > >> > > > >I don't understand why. > >Is this because of the amount of space the working copy takes up? > > > > > > Yes. Sometimes stuff breaks and you don't notice it right away (E.g. > because the > feature is not automatically tested, or because of noise from other test > failures). > So it is useful to keep several month worth of test builds around. > Doubling the > amount of space taken up by this is not acceptable.
If cp -Rl will not confuse svn, as Kevin suggests, first copying the repository using hard-links for files and then updating the new copy should save a lot of disk space. I'll try, if svk helps here, too. Richard.
