Re: Huge number of rev files in in svn repository

Jon Smirl wrote:
> Another interesting tidbit.
>
> Mozilla CVS is 3.0GB
> Same repository in svn is 8.2GB
> Same repository in git is 680MB
>
> git does deltas and then compresses the deltas all into one giant
> 680MB file. New commits are stored in collections of single files
> until the repository is packed again.

cvs2svn has significant problems with copy identification.
If mozilla has a lot of branches, tons of them will end up with entire
adds of the full text of the files as the first revision on the branch,
instead of copies from the approriate sources.

This happened to gcc, and by numbers, about 4 gig of our repository is
wasted space from this.

HTH,
Dan

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Received on Tue Jun 13 06:12:06 2006