-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Arnaud Charlet wrote: > > Also, I guess that would mean having 8.5 gigs dedicated > to the GCC rep (without talking about the check outs and builds) on > my machine. I know that disk space is cheap, but I would need to build a > new laptop or reformat my drive in order to achieve that... And still, > having 10gigs less on a laptop's hard drive is quite annoying.
8.5G seems to be the space needed on the server, *not* on your local machine. For example, HEAD seems to take 396M with CVS and 945M with SVN on one of the PCs I tested (comparing "du -sh" output). Note that each of the silly little files like "format", "README.txt", etc. within the ".svn" folder take up 4K each on partition I tested - the "README.txt" files alone take up 6M in the checked-out "trunk" sources. Of course, the biggest savings would perhaps come from not storing the "text-base" copies and letting non-jet-setter hackers have the option of taking the slight penalty of a lag when they do a diff in exchange for a much reduced disc-space requirements. Thanks, Ranjit. - -- Ranjit Mathew Email: rmathew AT gmail DOT com Bangalore, INDIA. Web: http://ranjitmathew.hostingzero.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDV1reYb1hx2wRS48RAm38AJ9YAJtxvMJXMoq6U6fmtCSnfwDalwCfR9jL zCcFEosbUdEPD4DUsITtmlI= =BCcx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
