Upgrading to SVN 1.7

We upgraded our Tortoise SVN clients from version 1.6.x to 1.7.x. SVN 1.7 uses a Centralized Metadata Storage, which means that instead of storing a .svn-directory inside every other directory in your working copy it stores 1 centralized .svn-directory in the root of your working copy. This means far less extra directories and files scattered all over your hard drive. For our project we got the follwing numbers:

1.6.x:

• Size on disc: 3,639 Mb
• Files: 20,199
• Folders: 7,542

1.7.x:

• Size on disc: 3,559Mb
• Files: 16,178
• Folders: 1,556

Conclusion:

• Size on disc: 97.8% of 1.6 version
• Files: 80% of 1.6 version
• Folders: 20% of 1.6 version

Diff:

• 2.2% less space
• 20% less files
• 80% less folders

SVN relocate on Mac OS

This shows you how to relocate your svn directory to point at a new server ip address on MacOS. In the following example I have used the following parameters:

• Computer user: Jerry
• Directory where I have my local copy of the repository checked out: Jerry/MyProject
• SVN user: svnuser
• SVN psw: svnpsw
• New IP of my server: 89.191.11.14

1. Open the Terminal
2. Navigate to the directory where you have your version checked out
3. Type "svn info".

• If you get a message like "svn: '.' is not a working copy", then you are in a directory that is not under version control. I.e. you are in the wrong directory.

4. See where it says "URL ..." ? This is where your current directory is currently linked to. You want to use that URL in the next step. In my case it says : URL: svn://89.210.74.91/myproject/trunk

5. Write "svn switch --username svnuser --password svnpsw --relocate svn://89.210.74.91/myproject/trunk svn://89.191.11.14/myproject/trunk"