Re: Git benchmarks at OpenOffice.org wiki

Andy Parkins [off-list ref] writes:

    - SVN checkout overhead is always _at least_ the size of the source tree 
      because it keeps a pristine copy of HEAD.  If the source tree is 1.5G,
      then this figure should be at least 3G.

Could it be that there is a mode in svn checkout that allows
pristine to be hardlinked to the working tree copies?  It
requires an editor that can be told to break hardlinks when
making modifications (and the user obviously needs to know about
it), but to save 1.5G it is worth it and if _I_ were hacking on
SVN that would be an obvious optimization to add.