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I have a subversion server. On this server I have a folder C:/svn that contain the repositories of 4 projects. Now, one of these projects in particular is very large, containing approximately 500 MB of CSV files. However, after I've committed all of them to the SVN server, the C:/svn folder is only 86MB.

How can this be?

Hubro
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  • possible duplicate of [Does SVN Compress the binary content?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/458182/does-svn-compress-the-binary-content) – Mitch Wheat Apr 02 '11 at 00:54
  • And a very relevant question - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2332833/how-exactly-does-subversion-store-files-in-the-repository – CoolBeans Apr 02 '11 at 01:00
  • @Mitch Wheat: If someone could tell me if it's physically possible that the size of the repository is less than a fifth the size of the files it contains, and if that's at all likely, I'll accept that answer. – Hubro Apr 02 '11 at 01:07
  • you have already proved its possible, right? – Mitch Wheat Apr 02 '11 at 01:08
  • Perhaps :P So is that a confirmation? For all I know subversion stores files outside the repository folders. That's why I'm asking :-) – Hubro Apr 02 '11 at 01:15

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SVN does perform compression on the deltas and the repo contents: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposadmin.maint.diskspace

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