[Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 11/5/08, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>  > This is impressive.  Mozilla has 10 years of history in their
>  > SubVersion repository totalling 12Gig of information. SubVersion also
>  > requires over 240,000 files in a single directory to handle the
>  > +240,000 commits.
>
> And who cares? This is on one *server*.

Not all filesystems like +240,000 files in a single directory.

>  > Converting that repository with full history to Git
>  > used only 420MB. See the URL below for details - "Small Space
>  > Requirements" section.
>
> Great, every client gets 420 MB of junk almost never needed.

You don't have to get a full history on "check-out".


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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