Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

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From: Yossi Kreinin
Subject: Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.
Date: 11:31 on 23 Dec 2006

> 
>> From the git documentation:
> 
> 
> "For example the Mozilla repository is reported to be almost 12 GiB
> when stored in SVN using the fsfs backend. The fsfs backend also
> requires over 240,000 files in one directory to record all 240,000
> commits made over the 10 year project history. The exact same history
> is stored in Git by only two files totaling just over 420 MiB. SVN
> requires 30x the disk space to store the same history."
> 
> http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSvnComparsion
> 
> Yves

I might have been misinformed. You know, this becomes interesting. Considering 
it's history, Git can probably import BitKeeper repositories pretty well, can't it?

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