Re: git repository size vs. subversion repository size

From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 5, 2008, 00:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20080405001809.GA3101@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <20080405000141.GA23633@dervierte>

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

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

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> 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?

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