Re: Git vs Monotone

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 08:13:59PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> If I clone the git mirror of our monotone repository, I find a
> checkout size of 148 MB after git-repack--running git-gc also
> increased the size by 2 MB, but I'll stick with the initial checkout
> size for fairness. If I multiply this by my 11 checkouts, I will have
> 1628 MB. This is even more compelling for me, as I now save 728 MB of
> disk space with monotone."

Yikes. This is not even remotely a fair comparison to monotone, which is
keeping a central db.

> I'm in the process of cloning the repo myself, and will check if doing
> a more aggressive (high --window and --depth values) repack will get
> us below that 148, but I'm thinking it's just that big a repo. Anyway,

It's much better than that. I just cloned

  git://github.com/felipec/pidgin-clone.git

and the _whole thing_ is 148M, including the working tree. His object db
is only 88M. So he can do his 11 trees in 61 * 11 + 88 = 759M, saving
141M over monotone.

And I am repacking with insane depth and window right now to see if we
can get it smaller (though really, it is not that big a deal, since the
size is dominated by his 11 working trees).

-Peff