From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:36:41 GMT Subject: Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] bzr-fastimport plugin, yet another Bazaar import option] Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <47BE7E1C.4040303@internode.on.net> Hi, On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Ian Clatworthy wrote: > Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > > Heh. OOo is _huge_. I think the best import into Git thus far is > > taking up about 1.5G of disk space once fully repacked. I don't > > recall how they did the import, but coming from SVN I think they used > > git-svn, which is not based on git-fast-import. > > > > What frontend are you using to go from SVN -> fast-import? > > The pack file in the Git clone I have is 2.4G. I thought that was large > but it's quite small compared to the 82G svn dump that creates a 55G svn > repo! The 2.4G have been compressed (loss-lessly ;-) to less than 1.5G. Unlike other SCMs, git has transparent access to the object database, which means that we can actually repack _expensively_ for a better compression. So yes, the Git clone you have _is_ 2.4G, but that size is not the best size you _can_ have. Ciao, Dscho