[svk-devel] File size limit exceeded with smerge

[Guillon Christophe]

    Hi,
I was not able to get a svn repository replicate working when trying the following use case which
I have seen in some of the users wikis.
I have a "File size limit exceeded" message after a while (or some other message related to system resources when
I retried).  

The use case is:
A distant svn repository: http://server.org/svnroot/project
I want a local svn repository: file:///local/svnroot/project
The local and distant svn repository are mirrored by SVK and smerge back and forth.
I proceeded like this:
1. first the distant repository was mirrored and synced:  
 svk mirror http://server.org/svnroot/project //mirrors/project
 svk sync //mirrors/project
 ...(wait a long  time)
 this commited revision 1 to 9383 from the distant project
 
2. second I created and mirrored a local svn repos:
 svn admin create /local/svnroot/project
 svk mirror file:///local/svnroot/project //local/project

3. finally I tried the first "sync" of the local SVN repository from the distant one and exhibited the problem:
 svk smerge -B //mirrors/project //local/project
A trunk/....
A ....
 ...(wait a long time)
File Size Limit Exceeded

At the end the smerge as lasted several hours, aborted and no revision was commited at all.
I tried a second time and also had a system resource exceeded message. It is quite long
to reproduce and I finally did not manage to get the local SVN repository updated.

If it helps the distant SVN repository is around 500 MBytes with a large number of files (including branches/tags)
estimated to around 5000 files*100 branches/tags and with >9000 revisions.
  
Does anyone have an idea if the use case described above is  feasible and if I should post an issue
and/or use a work around?
If I can sacrifice the (or part of the) old versions history on the local SVN repository; how to do it, and will it help?
Does anyone has an idea of the origin of the possible file size limit problem, is it the number of files or the number of
revisions?


    Regards,
    -- C.Guillon