On 28 January 2016 at 14:37, Philip Martin <philip.mar...@wandisco.com> wrote:
> > I have a svn 1.9 repository, created with svnsync, that has ~150000 > > revisions and size about 45 GB. Due to some issues in > svn-all-fast-export I > > wanted to have svn 1.8 version repository so I downgraded it by doing > > svnadmin (v 1.9) dump /svnadmin (v 1.8) load cycle. I was surprised that > > the size of v 1.8 repository is "only" 37.5 GB > > I tried to compare content of db\revs folder: some files are bigger in > 1.8 > > repo, some in 1.9 repo. > > That is not the expected behaviour, 1.9 would normally be smaller. Can > you identify where the difference lies? For example: are the HEAD > revisions the same? Are the db/revprops/ directories about the same > size? Are the db/revs/ directories about the same size? Are the > db/rep-cache.db files about the same size? > > the db/revpops are about the same, 23.7 MB in 1.9 and 23.8 MB in 1.8 rep-cache.db files are different, 39.7 MB in 1.9 and 58.4 MB in 1.8 The main difference is in sizes of db/revs folders > You can run > > svnlook tree path/to/repo > > to get a listing of all the paths visible in HEAD, you should get the > same list for 1.8 and 1.9. > > That gives identical results for both. Text file (with --full-paths) size is 272 MB. > 1.9 provides > > svnfsfs stats path/to/repo > > which you can run on both the 1.8 and 1.9 repositories. > > I'm using TortoiseSvn binaries, seems like this is not part of that distribution. I'll look at it later (tomorrow). Gert
