Re: Huge number of rev files in in svn repository

On 6/13/06, Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> wrote:
> 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

Is 1,800 a lot?

> 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
>

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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