Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 6/9/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > >
> > > Btw, does anybody know roughly how much data a initial "cvs co" takes on
> > > the mozilla repo? Git will obviously get the whole history, and that will
> > > inevitably be bigger than getting a single check-out, but it's not
> > > necessarily orders of magnitude bigger.
> >
> > 339MB for initial checkout

I ran the checkout through bzip and it is 36.4MB, 46.4MB with zip.
So the ratio may be 15 to 1 for the cvs co vs git

> And I think people run :pserver: with compression by default, so we're
> likely talking about half that in actual download overhead, no?
>
> So a git clone would be about (wild handwaving, don't look at all the
> assumptions) four times as expensive - assuming we only look at a poor DSL
> line as the expense - as an initial CVS co, but you'd get the _whole_
> history. Which may or may not make up for it. For some people it will, for
> others it won't.
>
> Of course, to make up for some of the initial costs, I suspect that some
> people who are used to "cvs update" taking 15 minutes to update two files,
> it would be a serious relief to see the git kind of "300 objects in five
> seconds" kinds of pulls.
>
> Although I guess that's one of the CVS things that SVN improved on. At
> least I'd hope so ;/
>
>                         Linus
>


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Jon Smirl
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