Subject: Re: git repository size vs. subversion repository size

From: Steven Walter <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 20:01:41 -0400

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?
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