On Tuesday 2007 May 01, Jakub Narebski wrote: > In 'Size of data on the server' git has CVS beat hands down: 1.3G vs > 8.5G for sources, 591M vs 1.1G for third party. I think it is similar > for Subversion. I hope that repository is fully packed: IIRC the Mozilla > CVS repository import was about 0.6GB pack file, not 1.3GB. I'm fairly sure it's not. If so that would also affect the speed of operations wouldn't it? I also doubt the subversion checkout size - subversion keeps a pristine copy of the HEAD file - so a subversion checkout is usually over twice the size of the source tree. > takes 3min (!) according to the benchmark. 13-25sec for commit is also > bit long I wonder if they are measuring the time for the generation of the commit message or something? Or perhaps by using "git-commit -a" is causing a check of the whole tree for changed files? > Comparison / benchmark lacks some crucial info, like what computer was > used (CPU, RAM, HDD), what filesystem was used, git version etc. It > does have commands used for tests (benchmarks). I'd also like to see some of the numbers for the other systems, I tried to use subversion with the linux kernel once and got fed up waiting for it to do anything. I suspect the reason numbers aren't shown for the others is that they haven't finished yet :-) > Could you confirm (or deny) those results? go-oo.org uses git 1.4.3.4; > was there some improvement or bugfix related to the speed of checkout? Wasn't there a recent change that made repacking after a clone unnecessary? That would certainly reduce the checkout size. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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