On Aug 18, 2010, at 07:47, Lezz Giles wrote: > Imagine the following scenario: > > - trunk has several large files (> 20M) which are updated regularly. These > files are +only+ changed on trunk. > - there are several branches, each of which updates from trunk at least once > a week. > > The merge of the large files from trunk takes an excessive amount of time and > creates new very large versions of files > that previously took up effectively no space at all, since they were cheap > copies.
Are you sure these are now taking up a lot of space? Are you using the latest Subversion and is your repository thoroughly upgraded? I thought the new "rep sharing" feature was supposed to make this a non-issue now. But I have not actually used it myself so maybe I misunderstand its purpose.
