On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 23:16 +0100, Robin Sonefors wrote: > > How much does it consume if it's a svn checkout? I heard (don't > know > > if it's true or not) git repo usually takes less diskspace then svn > > checkout. This page seems to support this claim: > > A complete git repo is usually smaller than a complete SVN one > (according to "common knowlege" - as in, I didn't run any benchmarks), > but one commonly only checks out the /trunk subdirectory in > subversion, > while git usually checks out the whole project history, including all > branches - it could be a substantial amount of data you don't check > out > with SVN.
I think Zeeshan is talking about working copies, not repositories. An svn working copy stores two complete copies of each file in the repo; one is the one that you see and edit, and one is in .svn/text-base _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
