Hi, On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, David Tweed wrote: > How big is the "metadata" or "bookeeping data" in git related to a > commit? In my experience, a single commit (with the trees and blobs being reachable from it) takes about the same space in a pack as the corresponding tar ball. When you add revisions, the pack grows approximately with the compressed patch size. So, if you can estimate the size of the initial tar ball and the size of the subsequent patches, you have a ballpark figure of the metadata size of the git repository. (This is for the bare case; for the regular case you have to add the size of a checked out tree, of course.) Hth, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html