<p><a href="http://git.or.cz/">Git</a> needs no introduction.</p> <p>You probably have heard about how git efficiently stores the contents and the repository history on your hard drive. I decided to put it on a test!</p> <pre> $ svn co https://my.super.gigantic.svn.repo repo_svn $ du -csh repo_svn 473 Mb </pre> <p>Now with git-svn:</p> <pre> $ git svn clone https://my.super.gigantic.svn.repo repo_git $ cd repo_git $ git gc $ du -csh . 340 Mb </pre> <p><span class="caps">WTF</span>???!!</p> <p>And what&#8217;s the difference? The git repo contains <strong>all</strong> the history since <strong>revision 0</strong> from this repository, <strong>offline</strong>!</p> <p>So <strong>all</strong> the repository history on git is <strong>significantly smaller</strong> than the <strong>HEAD</strong> on svn? I really do love git&#8230;</p> 93 why-i-m-in-love-with-git 2008-03-04T15:51:00-08:00