Re: Subversion worries

At 09:51 -0400 8/22/03, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>3.  It's a disk hog.  The subversion-checked-out ponie/perl directory
>     is over twice as big as the perl-5.8.x directory.  That's because
>     all the information is duplicated in the hidden .svn
>     subdirectories.  For small projects, this isn't a big deal, but for
>     me, for two projects as big as parrot and perl, the extra disk space is
>     significant.  I'm sure there are sensible technical reasons for it, but
>     it's still a lot of disk space for me.

Maybe using ReiserFS would alleviate this problem a bit.  I just love 
to use that in all cases when there are many files in directories. 
Maybe using ReiserFS would improve the overall speed as well?


Liz