[svk-devel] svn space savings comparison?
Jesse Vincent
jesse at bestpractical.com
Wed Dec 12 22:44:00 EST 2007
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:35:27PM -0500, Andrew Sasak wrote:
> So this example uses a working copy that has numerous changes, and if the
> working copy was pristine (no changes) SVN would require must less space?
No. SVN has two distinct copies of each file on disk.
> This brings up another question, what is the space used by a fresh checkout
> from SVK? Since it links to the local copy of the repository, is it nil?
No. the repository isn't just a directory structure on disk. an svk
checkout still takes up space on disk.
Best,
Jesse
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