Re: git repository size vs. subversion repository size

[Stephan, please stop dropping me from Cc:, thanks]

On 2008.04.04 20:01:41 -0400, Steven Walter wrote:

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?

Starting from 1.5.4 (IIRC) git-svn will repack every 1000 revisions (by
default). That won't give you a reeeeally tiny pack but OTOH it won't
take ages to do the repacks either.

Björn