# git-svn: a interesting difference in performance as compared to Tortoise SVN

1 messages from 2012-04-18 to 2012-04-18. Participants: Jon Seymour.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/30275

## Jon Seymour, 2012-04-18 05:56

Subject: git-svn: a interesting difference in performance as compared to Tortoise SVN
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I thought others might be interested in this slightly
counter-intuitive performance of git-svn as opposed to Tortoise SVN.

The SVN repo is exposed via HTTP. The current tree is about 8500 files
and consumes 300MB of disk, checked out. The git repo is 200MB. There
are around 231 commits in the history.

The initially slightly counter-intuitive aspect is that given the
current state of the repo, git-svn is 4 times faster when it pulls the
entire history than TortoiseSVN is when it checks out just the current
head. It seems that the extra network cost of the extra git-svn
retrieval is dwarfed by the local processing costs of the TortoiseSVN
client.

jon.

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