Re: git repository size / compression
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John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
- Date
- Sep 9, 2011, 16:05 UTC
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On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> wrote: [snip]
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>> Subversion repo/server:
>> {{{
>> $ du -h -d 1
>> 12K ./conf
>> 1.2M ./db
>> 36K ./hooks
>> 8.0K ./locks
>> 1.2M .
>> }}}
>
> I don't know how the repository is stored in Subversion, but it may also
> be compressed. You may be able to reduced your git repository size by
> (re)generating packs with 'git repack' and doing some cleanups with 'git
> gc', but the repository size is not often a concern.It is stored compressed in Subversion, and it also generates deltas against previous versions. IIRC, the delta algorithm in an xdelta based one, and then the data is run through compression. Subversion will at times choose to self-compress the file, instead of doing a delta and compressing. IIRC, there is some heuristics in there for determining when to do that, but I forget the exact method.
HTH!
-John