size of source tree

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:26:23 +0100
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> On 12/04/2014 04:54, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > The source tree dated 26.03.14 has a size of some 899GM while
> > today's source tree has some 1.8GB.
> > 
> > Why is it suddenly so huge?
> > 
> 
> How were these source trees obtained?  A checkout from SVN will have a
> .svn directory containing pristine copies of all of the files, which
> will pretty much double the space requirement.
> 
both have been obtained with svn. The smaller one was started last year
with the then current version of svn.

Is there an option to turn this behaviour of keeping a copy off?

Erich