Re: Git benchmarks at OpenOffice.org wiki

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: May 2, 2007, 15:33 UTC
Message-ID: <200705021633.14428.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200705021637.02057.kendy@suse.cz>

On Wednesday 2007 May 02, Jan Holesovsky wrote:

> Unfortunately I don't have the _exact_ numbers here any more so I cannot
> prove it ;-) - but this is a rounding problem [CVS checkout is slightly
> more than 1.4G].  Similarly, overhead of of CVS directories is 0 when we
> count in gigabytes.

0.1G would have been an awfully big rounding error. Regardless, Julian has put me right on that - the git checked out size was actually 2.7GB - this then lines up with the CVS figures.

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> > - 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.
>
> Yes, this surprises me as well.  I've heard about some improvements in the
> recent SVN, but 0.1M sounds very small.

Very much so - I've tried with a 1.4.2 and my own small repository and the pristine copies are stored uncompressed as always. 0.1G now sounds plain wrong. Maybe there are some switches I should be using to svn checkout.

Andy

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