repository backup size - cvs vs hg
Chris Mason
mason at suse.com
Thu Jun 29 19:53:35 UTC 2006
On Thursday 29 June 2006 14:04, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I did a test converting all my longstanding cvs repositories to HG.
>
> The final compressed backup size with CVS was 2.7Mbyte, with HG (hg
> clone -U) the final backup size is 8.9Mbyte.
>
> I think the compression done on the revlog detals hurts, and we could do
> better in terms of backup size if we would disable it.
Could you please du -ka on the .hg directory? Is most of the space taken up
by a few big revlogs?
Does your CVS repo have lots of branches?
-chris
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