On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 09:58, Arnaud Charlet wrote: > 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.
According to the SVK wiki pages you don't need to mirror the entire repository. You can do it from a specific version. So, for example, you could mirror all versions since gcc-2.95 came out (or later if you so wished). That should cut down the size of the mirrored data significantly. R.