From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] bzr-fastimport plugin, yet another Bazaar import option] Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:36:41 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <47BE167A.4060005@internode.on.net> <20080222073228.GF8410@spearce.org> <47BE7E1C.4040303@internode.on.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Bazaar , git@vger.kernel.org To: Ian Clatworthy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 22 11:37:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JSVHi-0007xx-5L for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:37:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753329AbYBVKhG (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:37:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750762AbYBVKhG (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:37:06 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:35788 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753329AbYBVKhD (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:37:03 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Feb 2008 10:37:01 -0000 Received: from host86-138-198-40.range86-138.btcentralplus.com (EHLO racer.home) [86.138.198.40] by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 22 Feb 2008 11:37:01 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+qF/pD0O2q18tKZcnNU+sxis6LABF14pjn2xiIwe kJdi4vftgieuEU X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <47BE7E1C.4040303@internode.on.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Ian Clatworthy wrote: > Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > > Heh. OOo is _huge_. I think the best import into Git thus far is > > taking up about 1.5G of disk space once fully repacked. I don't > > recall how they did the import, but coming from SVN I think they used > > git-svn, which is not based on git-fast-import. > > > > What frontend are you using to go from SVN -> fast-import? > > The pack file in the Git clone I have is 2.4G. I thought that was large > but it's quite small compared to the 82G svn dump that creates a 55G svn > repo! The 2.4G have been compressed (loss-lessly ;-) to less than 1.5G. Unlike other SCMs, git has transparent access to the object database, which means that we can actually repack _expensively_ for a better compression. So yes, the Git clone you have _is_ 2.4G, but that size is not the best size you _can_ have. Ciao, Dscho