Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 20:59:57 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Lena@lena.kiev.ua Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: size of source tree Message-ID: <20140412205957.516733ea@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <20140412122603.GB783@lena.kiev> References: <mailman.55.1397304001.41635.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20140412122603.GB783@lena.kiev>
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Hi, On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:26:03 +0300 Lena@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
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