Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements on cygwin

[Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga]

root wrote:

> I thought SVN only copies files when they are changed
> so branches should not be expensive since they store 
> only changes. I know that GIT only copies files when the
> checksums differ so several copies of Axiom occupy almost
> no additional space (or time, since GIT will not rsync
> files that are duplicates). Surely Axiom will fit in a
> gig of disk space.

I think I pulled the whole axiom tree with svk:

$ svk list /mirror/axiom
branches/
silver/
tags/
trunk/

$ du -sh ~/.svk/remote
364M    /Users/humberto/.svk/remote

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Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga
Programmer-Archaeologist
UPR Bioinformatics Resource Center
http://www.hpcf.upr.edu/~humberto/