Subj : Re: How fast and big do SVN repos grow?
To   : comp.programming
From : Peter Ammon
Date : Fri Jul 22 2005 08:32 pm

Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in the quest of finding free online hosts for source code control 
> systems like CVS and SVN, I stumbled across www.cvsdude.com, which 
> offers a free 2MB SVN/CVS repository to anyone.
> 
> However, isn't 2MB next to nothing? I remember CVS repos growing quite 
> fast, even for small source controlled programs.
> Before registering I want to make sure if this isn't just their way of 
> catching potential customers. 2MB of plain source code would be 
> sufficient for me, but the administrative files probably take up way 
> more than just that I guess and I don't want to find myself hitting the 
> quota limit after 4 commits.
> 
> Regards,
> Matthias
> 

FWIW, my Subversion repository (in which I am the only committer) has 
about 170 source and header files and 8 or so MB of binary resources, 
and the Subversion repository uses 13 MB.

-Peter

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