On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Robin Sonefors <[email protected]> wrote:
> On sön, 2009-01-04 at 23:58 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Luca Ferretti <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Il giorno dom, 04/01/2009 alle 16.11 -0500, Matthias Clasen ha scritto: > > > > > >> It seems pretty clear to me that any 'homegrown' system like this is > > >> not suitable as a longterm, stable solution for a project the size of > > >> gnome. > > > > > > BTW, once switched to DVCS, how much disk space I should have in order > > > to perform a full GNOME Desktop build with jhbuild? A WebKit build from > > > git needs ~740MB :-/ > > > > 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. > > Well, Actually the quotes from the GitSvnComparsion page are very misleading, it is true that a git working directory needs less space than an svn working directory, it is also true that a git repository is smaller than an svn repository. The main difference is that with git, you *clone* a repository, and then create a working directory out of it, so you need sizeof(repo) + sizeof(git-working-directory) on your hard disk, while with svn, all what you need is sizeof(svn-working-directory).
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