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Asked: 2026-05-12T10:26:04+00:00

I am studying a large software project and how it evolved. I have access

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I am studying a large software project and how it evolved. I have access to the subversion repository to analyze the code but I would like to have a copy of this repository on my machine.
I want to do this so I’m not hanging on the production svn and also because I’m assuming it would be faster for me to work against a local repo than a remote one.

So, two questions:

  1. How can I estimate the size of the repo with all the changes up to now?
  2. How can I copy the repo so that I get the full change history locally?
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  1. Editorial Team

    Assuming you won’t be committing locally, I would recommend you setup a local mirror of the SVN repository in question using svnsync. There is a how-to here and it seems it can mirror the SVN structure to your local machine.

    Thus:

    1. The size on the local machine will be as large as the on-disk size of the remote repository. If you have access to the filesystem on the remote machine, you can look that up.
    2. This comes automatically when you have a proper setup of svnsync.
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