repository backup size - cvs vs hg

[Chris Mason]

On Thursday 29 June 2006 14:04, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I did a test converting all my longstanding cvs repositories to HG.
>
> The final compressed backup size with CVS was 2.7Mbyte, with HG (hg
> clone -U) the final backup size is 8.9Mbyte.
>
> I think the compression done on the revlog detals hurts, and we could do
> better in terms of backup size if we would disable it.

Could you please du -ka on the .hg directory?  Is most of the space taken up 
by a few big revlogs?

Does your CVS repo have lots of branches?

-chris