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> From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org 
> [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Jeff King
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:02 PM
> To: sverre@rabbelier.nl
> Cc: Git Mailinglist
> Subject: Re: Git vs Monotone
> 
> 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 think it is a fair comparison, but as you point out, the author is
doing the comparison wrong.  Monotone's "central db" (as you call it) is
really equivalent to git's object database.

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> > 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.
> 
Right, that's been my experience too, that git is smaller than monotone.
The author just needs to compare eqivalent concepts ;-)

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> -Peff
> --

Cheers,
Craig
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