On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:53 PM, D. Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are in the process of converting a 10-year-old project from CVS to > fossil. The original CVS tree consist of 957 separate files totalling > 322,265,419 bytes. The first cut of the fossil repository is > 33,091,584 bytes and after cloning (which results in better delta > compression) reduced to 23,604,224 bytes. In hindsight that isn't surprising tags/branch names, log messages, author and dates are spelled out in full in all the 957 files. to give an exaggerated example An update of all the 957 files with a 1KB log message means 957KB growth of CVS (and rewriting 957 files). While in fossil it is a much smaller growth. For tagging a release 957 files need to be rewritten In fossil 957 records are added It isn't only de compressed delta also the more efficient database structure of fossil versus CVS which saves space and time. Rene _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
