From: Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail•com>
To: Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@deanbrook•org>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git repository size vs. subversion repository size
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:01:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080405000141.GA23633@dervierte> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p06240810c41c6e0993c1@[63.138.152.125]>
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:49:24PM -0400, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
> I'm just fooling around with git so far but I found a huge space savings
> after running git gc. Here are the rough numbers:
>
> svn repo on server: 1GB
> svn repo checked out: 2GB
> git svn clone after gc: 384MB
>
> That's saving the full history in git -- about 13000 revisions.
git-gc is such an important step in importing a repository from svn.
Why doesn't git-svn take this vital step automatically?
--
-Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail•com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-05 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-04 22:02 git repository size vs. subversion repository size Sean Brown
2008-04-04 22:17 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-04-04 23:49 ` Stephen Bannasch
2008-04-05 0:01 ` Steven Walter [this message]
2008-04-05 0:04 ` Stephen Bannasch
2008-04-05 0:18 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-04-14 15:28 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-04-05 2:27 ` Sean Brown
2008-04-05 2:34 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-04-13 9:57 ` Jan Hudec
2008-04-05 3:11 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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