Martin Friebe wrote: > people, but the way way you generalize it, it sounds that would be an > advantage for everyone? I much prefer to have the repository on the server.
I'm not starting this again.... :-) > And if I understand this correct, then GIT downloads *every* > intermediate version to your PC, every time you upgrade (otherwise, how > can they already be there). That to me would be a disadvantage, I may > never need that data. Read the "Git Mirrors" page on the Lazarus wiki: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/git_mirrors To quote myself....(which is never a good thing) "$ git clone git://github.com/graemeg/lazarus.git ...this will download 57MB of data and unpack to around 144MB on your hard drive. This has the _whole_ history of Lazarus. A checkout via SubVersion of only the trunk revision is over 320MB - more than double what Git is with full history." Even though you end up with every revision, Git's compression is clearly *much* better than SubVersion's. The WHOLE history of Lazarus is a 57MB download (and unpacks to 144MB on the hard drive). Compare that to a SINGLE trunk revision using SubVersion which equals to around 320MB. The Git repository is much smaller, no matter how you look at it. You get more bang for you buck! ;-) Disclaimer: ----------- These values were accurate at the time I created the wiki page. Values may have increased since - as the project grew. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
