size of source tree

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Erich Dollansky wrote:

> 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.

Have you run 'svn cleanup' on it?