size of source tree

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:26:03 +0300
Lena at lena.kiev.ua wrote:

> > From: Erich Dollansky
> 
> > > > 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?
> 
> You can download entire source tree only (without .svn directory)
> every time instead of update, for example:
> 
> rm -rf /usr/src
> svn export svn://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/base/releng/8.4 /usr/src
> 
I thought of this when the switch to svn was made.

> Takes about 30 minutes.

At your place, yes, not where I am most of the time.

Erich