What type of repo do you have? FSFS or BDB? (Let’s assume FSFS for now, since that’s the default.) In the case of FSFS, each revision is stored as a diff against the previous. So, you would think that yes, after many revisions, it would be very slow. However, this isn’t the case. FSFS uses … Read more
Because Subversion’s repository format is entirely internal, they are free to change the representation from one revision to the next. I believe the current revision generally stores reverse deltas (your option 2), but also stores complete snapshots periodically so it doesn’t have to resolve 1000 diffs before returning a result. The Subversion 1.6 release notes … Read more
Have a look at <REPO>/db/format. After upgrading to 1.5 format, my format file shows: 3 layout sharded 1000 Before it used to be: 2