Hi Steve, > If I were to check out the svn root of that repository, I would use well > over 3TB of disk space to have that checked out ... This stirred my thoughts and I whipped up a bash script that uses SVK, find, shasum and ln to build a filesystem view of the root of an svn repository that consumes moderate storage: SVK_DEPOT="" MAX_REV=12345 CO_DIR=validation HASH_DIR=hashes svk co -r1 /$SVK_DEPOT/ $CO_DIR mkdir -p $HASH_DIR for (( REV=1 ; REV<=MAX_REV ; ++REV )) do svk up -r$REV $CO_DIR # Hashify working copy find $CO_DIR -type d -cmin -5 -prune -o \ -type f -links 1 -exec shasum '{}' + | ( while read HASH FILE ; do [ -x "$FILE" ] && HASH="$HASH"x ln "$FILE" $HASH_DIR/$HASH 2>/dev/null || \ ln -f $HASH_DIR/$HASH "$FILE" done ) done Important assumptions are that each update will take less than 5 minutes and that SVK uses writes to a temporary file and then renames to perform a modification. I've used this to build a simple validation script for my project. I estimate it will use about 20GB to represent my 1GB repo and that it will take about 3 hours. -- David Barr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html