size of source tree

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 10:34:43 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> > 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?

my scripts use this whenever they run into trouble. Could this be the
cause?

Erich