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Asked: 2026-05-19T04:18:43+00:00

I recently had to re-factor some code from a previous maintainer and initially I

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I recently had to re-factor some code from a previous maintainer and initially I had to do a lot of shifting directories and renaming et-all. It was relatively a small amount of code so comparing sizes didn’t really reveal much. Given that subversion will always preserve each version, won’t this explode the size?

I’m assuming that

repo/trunk/bobbyapple

moved to

repo/branches/oldapple

would be considered different histories based off of path and that subversion would preserve these differently (move = copy+delete). Thus if one shifts around large directories, this quickly can explode the size?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Copying is essentially free in SVN, and changes are stored as diffs. So no, this won’t “explode” the size.

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