repository backup size - cvs vs hg

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:18:23PM +0200, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> If you compressed the CVS repo with bz2 for example, it is more fair

Yes I compressed the CVS repository with tar cj.

> to do the HG backup with a bundle (do hg bundle with an empty repo as
> target).

Yes, the tarball (uncompressed) of all the bundles goes down to 5.6M,
that's still almost twice as large but much much better than 8.9M ;).

I wonder if we can do something more than the bundle.

I guess adding an option to the bundle command so it doesn't require an
empty repository sounds a good idea (if not we could add a real
backup/restore that probably would be more self-explanatory).