repository disk usage

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:42:47PM +0100, M.A. Williamson wrote:
> >>linux-2.6-git$ du -s -h
> >>335M    .
> >>linux-2.6-hg$ du -s -h
> >>449M    .
> >
> >Is that the full 2.6 history git (from bkcvs) or the mainline Linus git 
> >tree, which starts its history considerably more recently? IIRC, the hg 
> >repository stores the whole 2.6 history.
> 
> Bzzzzt! I'm wrong :-) Since the introduction of packfiles in git, the hg 
> Linux repos is a mirror of the Linux 2.6 tree, so these repos are storing 
> the same amount of history.
> 
> In agreement with your results, I get:
> linux-2.6.git: 337M
> linux-2.6.hg: 450M
> 
> A couple more datapoints:
> old-2.6-bkcvs.git (the full 2.6 history): 412M

Is that with a working dir? Without a working dir, it's 297MB in
Mercurial:

http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2005-May/000334.html

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