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. > > 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. > > > 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.)
