>On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:49:24PM -0400, Stephen Bannasch wrote: >> I'm just fooling around with git so far but I found a huge space savings >> after running git gc. Here are the rough numbers: >> >> svn repo on server: 1GB >> svn repo checked out: 2GB >> git svn clone after gc: 384MB >> >> That's saving the full history in git -- about 13000 revisions. > >git-gc is such an important step in importing a repository from svn. >Why doesn't git-svn take this vital step automatically? I think because it is not necessary for continued productive use of git and the gc operation is expensive. On the repo above it took about 8 hours running in the background while I was working on other stuff. -- 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
