Why does SVN take so much space?

Question

I am working on a large sized project that is about 1020 MB in size. This is because, apart from the code, we have other resources, like graphics, XML configurations, etc.

Answer 1

For binary data, SVN stores the entire copy on every new revision, not deltas. Thus - you get big repositories over time. .svn-base stores the pristine state of the working copy - if you have a big working copy, you have the same size of pristine-data.