On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 02:49:56PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > I keep a local svn checkout in sync with a svn repository on the > server (without making any local changes). > > I probably created the repository with subversion 1.6 (and also did > the checkout with the same version) and later upgraded both the > original repository and the checkout to version 1.8. (I dumped and > imported the original repository and ran "svn upgrade" on the > checkout.) > > The size of a checkout (excluding .svn) is 659 MB. The size of > original repository dropped from 653 to 601 MB when I upgraded it to > version 1.8 and now increased again to 738 MB due to new commits. > > But the weird thing is that the size of .svn folder in a local > checkout is 2.7 GB. If I do a fresh checkout it's only 659M which is > reasonable, but 2.7 GB seems too much. > > I then checked another checkout of a large repository. The size of the > checkout is 6,3 GB, but the .svn folder apparently became a 36 GB > monster. > > Is there any painless way to shrink the size of the local .svn folder > (other than deleting everything and fetching the whole 6 GB again)? > > Thank you, > Mojca
'svn cleanup' http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html#wc-pristines
