> 8.5G seems to be the space needed on the server, *not* > on your local machine.
I believe you are confused: I was talking about a svk set up (as suggested by the author of the email I was responding to) with a local mirror of the repository in this message. 8.5G is for the local mirror, it is not (even) counting the check out which does take almost a gig as you said. Arno
