title: Why does SVN take so much space?
body: <p>I am working on a large sized project that is about 1020&nbsp;MB in size. This is because, apart from the code, we have other resources, like graphics, XML configurations, etc. in the version control.</p>
  
  <p>The size of the .svn-base files is about 998&nbsp;MB, making the total checkout size about 2&nbsp;GB. By my understanding .svn-base is meta information and its size shouldn't be that much.</p>
  
  <p>Why does SVN need so much space?</p>