A couple more subversion notes

[Richard Earnshaw]

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.