There are two reasons for this. Any sort of data cannot be kept in directory permanently. It will be erased soon as the application is turned OFF. Second is, the memory is always limited when the files are large enough to be accommodated and other files are already running. At such situations, the users need to move the existing directory into new repository. This is done by executing the command “svn import”
🔗Reference: stackoverflow.com
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