What is the maximum revision number supported by SVN?

barfoon picture barfoon · May 3, 2009 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

What is the maximum revision number supported by SVN? The repo is of type FSFS, hosted on a Fedora box.

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Answer

Ville Laurikari picture Ville Laurikari · May 3, 2009

If you're using a 32-bit computer it's 2147483647, that's 231-1, the maximum value of a signed 32-bit integer. For a 64-bit computer, it's... more. In any case, it should be enough for any practical purpose where humans are doing commits.

In practice, you're probably going to run out of disk space or your directory indexes become too slow before you hit the maximum revision number limit.