Re: Re: more git updates..

Linus Torvalds
2005-04-12T23:49:05Z

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> At the rate of 9M for every 198 changeset checkins, that means I'll have
> to download 2.7G _uncompressible_ (i.e. already compressed with a bad
> per-file ratio due the too-small files) for a whole pack including all
> changesets without accounting the original 111MB of the original tree,
> with rsync -z of git. That compares with 514M _compressible_ with CVS
> format on-disk, and with ~79M of the CVS-network download with rsync -z of
> the CVS repository (assuming default gzip compression level).

Yes. CVS is much denser.

CVS is also total crap. So your point is?

Linus