[svk-devel] svn space savings comparison?

[Jesse Vincent]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:02:32PM -0500, Andrew Sasak wrote:
> I apologize because this probably doesn't belong here but I don't know of a
> better place to post it:
> On WhySVK, the comparison indicates that an SVN working copy would require
> 2.2G for a 1.3G. I find this difficult to believe. Can somebody explain this
> to me?

Sure. To economize on bandwidth (and improve performance), svn caches
"pristine" copies of your files in the .svn directory. SVK just maps
them to the local copy of your repository.

-jesse

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