Would we try to migrate the revision history from Subversion to Git? - Gordon
-----Original Message----- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:32 PM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: What would it take to move to Git? On 8/10/12 12:22 PM, "labri...@digitalprimates.net" <labri...@digitalprimates.net> wrote: > >> I am greatly concerned about disk space utilization if you have a >> snapshot of everything including changes. Has anyone synced up with >> Apache Flex Git since we stuffed it with Mustella tests? Will each >> >branch/fork/clone we make actually replicate all of that data? > > Alex, > > Due to the way git stores files it is actually infinitely smaller than > SVN storage over the long term, especially when one considers > branches. If two files are the same, regardless if there are 7000 > branches, there is only a single copy of the file. > > If you are interested, here is some info on the overhead of git as > perceived from the linux kernel project: > > https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitBenchmarks#Repository_size_be > nchmarks > > Mike OK, but the first clone will be huge? I think our import file was in the 10's of GBs. I'm afraid to try to clone the flex project over my home network. I am testing by cloning the flex-site which worked from github. -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
