On Oct 25, 2011, at 13:09, Andy Levy wrote: >> But I ma puzzled by your last statement "it might actually lead to increase >> in space". How it that possible? >> If I trunkate -r 1:3000 and leave 3000 to HEAD how would this increase size? >> I know this is the other case I am talking about here not the initial >> problem with aux. (possible other usage in svnadmin trunk) > > The increase in space has to do with how Subversion implements copies. > IIRC, if you remove the "right" parts of your history, you can end up > with duplicated items instead of cheap copies, thus increasing the > space needed to store it.
But since Subversion 1.6 we have representation sharing: http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.6.html#rep-sharing Doesn't that fix the problem? Or not quite?
