On Wednesday 2007 May 02, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > Unfortunately I don't have the _exact_ numbers here any more so I cannot > prove it ;-) - but this is a rounding problem [CVS checkout is slightly > more than 1.4G]. Similarly, overhead of of CVS directories is 0 when we > count in gigabytes. 0.1G would have been an awfully big rounding error. Regardless, Julian has put me right on that - the git checked out size was actually 2.7GB - this then lines up with the CVS figures. > > - SVN checkout overhead is always _at least_ the size of the source tree > > because it keeps a pristine copy of HEAD. If the source tree is 1.5G, > > then this figure should be at least 3G. > > Yes, this surprises me as well. I've heard about some improvements in the > recent SVN, but 0.1M sounds very small. Very much so - I've tried with a 1.4.2 and my own small repository and the pristine copies are stored uncompressed as always. 0.1G now sounds plain wrong. Maybe there are some switches I should be using to svn checkout. 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