Re: git repository size vs. subversion repository size

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:49:24PM -0400, Stephen Bannasch wrote:

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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?

I think because it is not necessary for continued productive use of git and the gc operation is expensive. On the repo above it took about 8 hours running in the background while I was working on other stuff.