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