repository disk usage

Mark Williamson mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk
Fri Aug 12 11:31:28 CDT 2005


Hi Matt,

> > 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

Yes, it is with a working dir.  The .git directory alone uses 178M but this is 
*just* the 2.6 history (and more aggressively packed than usual), whereas the 
Mercurial repo you quoted goes back to 2.4.0.

It'd be interesting to get more comparison cases here.

Cheers,
Mark


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