On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:08, morten bjoernsvik wrote: > In many cases with small projects I move the repository around > (like we have been used to with git) > svnadmin dump <repository> | bzip2 > repository_revXX.svndump.bz2 > and then: > svnadmin create <parth to repository> > bzip2 -dc repository_revXX.svndump.bz2 | svnadmin load <path to repository> > This works fine up to around 100-150 revisions, then it becomes slow [...]
In what way does it become slow? Many projects have much larger repositories that are not slow. The MacPorts Project's repository has over 86,000 revisions now; the Apache Foundation's Subversion repository has over a million revisions. On Oct 20, 2011, at 10:14, morten bjoernsvik wrote: > I also like to clean up repositores from time to time, aka > a svnadmin -rXX:YY dump then delete and load to only save the latest 10 > revisions and drop the rest. Subversion really isn't designed to be used in this manner. svnadmin is meant to be used for infrequent administrative tasks, not as a part of a user's regular interaction with a repository. And Subversion is designed to keep your history; it's more or less deliberately difficult to eradicate history. If you really want to do that, you can, but maybe a different version control system would fit your way of working better.
