Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Melchior FRANZ -- 8/26/2008 3:03 PM: >> But it would make me a bit nervous if an aircraft developer commits >> several pointless updates of 5MB sound files. GIT can't compress that. >> We'd collect the whole pile on our disks. How much would disk space >> requirements grow each year? > > Bah, I just saw a rather cheap 1TB disk offered in the ads of a shop > that focuses on books, music CDs and paper stuff. I guess that a > few MB more aren't really an issue nowadays. Hereby I withdraw the > above consideration. So what's left as an argument against switching > to GIT right away? That's after some more discussions and tests, of > course. :-) > > And by the way: an SVN checkout keeps two copies of every single > file. And for most files that copy takes about as much disk space as > the *whole* history of that file in GIT, which includes all file > revisions! (IIRC)
I just tested the fg GIT server and checked out fgdata, which is quite a piece of stuff. It took some time, but that's normal for the first checkout and not different to CVS. The interesting thing is running "du -c" after the checkout on both different dirs: CVS: 1696167 total git: 1043121 total Which clearly shows how efficient git works even with binary files and considering that this copy contains all the changes, as Melchior already stated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
