Re: git repository size vs. subversion repository size
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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.
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>git-gc is such an important step in importing a repository from svn.
>Why doesn't git-svn take this vital step automatically?
I think because it is not necessary for continued productive use of git and the gc operation is expensive. On the repo above it took about 8 hours running in the background while I was working on other stuff.