On 2008.04.04 22:27:12 -0400, Sean Brown wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2008.04.04 18:02:56 -0400, Sean Brown wrote: > > > Last night I decided to see what storage size differences I might see > > > between an svn repo and a git one. So I imported a highly used > > > subversion repository into git and was shocked to see how huge the git > > > version was. I used a repo that has a lot of branches and tagged > > > releases just to make sure importing into git would in fact keep all > > > of the history. It did keep the history, but the total disk usage was > > > very different: > > > > > > $subversionbox # du -hs ./my_sample_website/ > > > 67M ./my_sample_website > > > > > > $localhost # du -hs ./git-samplesite/ > > > 3.6GB ./git-samplesite/ > > > > How much of that is in the .git/svn directory? The contents of that > > directory are used to map git commits to svn revision and git versions > > before 1.5.4 had a quite space consuming file format for that. The new > > format is a lot better. If you want to switch completely, you can even > > just delete the .git/svn directory, as that's only required as long as > > you want to interact with the corresponding svn repository. > > > > And finally, you might want to repack to repository once after the > > initial import, to get a smaller repo. Something like: > > git repack -a -d -f --window=100 --depth=100 > > > > The svn folder (in the.git directory) was only about 4.2 MB. After > running the repack (and then after that git gc as mentioned by another > in this thread), it's still about 3.5 GB. > > git-samplesite (master)]$ du -hs ./* > 2.1G ./branches > 1.4G ./tags > 66M ./trunk Uhm, you forgot to use -s when doing the clone. That would have created real git branches instead of the directories... What you are counting is the size of the checked out, uncompressed files of _all_ branches and _all_ tags (and trunk). The repo size of basically what "du -sh .git" would give. Björn -- 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
