On 8/10/12 12:22 PM, "labri...@digitalprimates.net"
<labri...@digitalprimates.net> wrote:
>
>> I am greatly concerned about disk space utilization if you have a snapshot of
>> everything including changes. Has anyone synced up with Apache Flex Git
>> since we stuffed it with Mustella tests? Will each >branch/fork/clone we
>> make actually replicate all of that data?
>
> Alex,
>
> Due to the way git stores files it is actually infinitely smaller than SVN
> storage over the long term, especially when one considers branches. If two
> files are the same, regardless if there are 7000 branches, there is only a
> single copy of the file.
>
> If you are interested, here is some info on the overhead of git as perceived
> from the linux kernel project:
>
> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitBenchmarks#Repository_size_benchmarks
>
> Mike
OK, but the first clone will be huge? I think our import file was in the
10's of GBs. I'm afraid to try to clone the flex project over my home
network. I am testing by cloning the flex-site which worked from github.
--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
