Version Control Software

[rusi]

On Jun 16, 4:14 am, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Roy Smith <r... at panix.com> wrote:
> > The advantage of DVCS is that everybody has a full copy of the repo.
> > The disadvantage of the DVCS is that every MUST have a full copy of the
> > repo.  When a repo gets big, you may not want to pull all of that data
> > just to get the subtree you need.
>
> Yeah, and depending on size, that can be a major problem. While git
> _will_ let you make a shallow clone, it won't let you push from that,
> so it's good only for read-only repositories (we use git to manage
> software deployments at work - shallow clones are perfect) or for
> working with patch files.
>
> Hmm. ~/cpython/.hg is 200MB+, but ~/pike/.git is only 86MB. Does
> Mercurial compress its content? A tar.gz of each comes down, but only
> to ~170MB and ~75MB respectively, so I'm guessing the bulk of it is
> already compressed. But 200MB for cpython seems like a lot.

[I am assuming that you have run  "git gc --aggressive" before giving
those figures]

Your data would tell me that python is about twice as large a project
as pike in terms of number of commits. Isn't this a natural conclusion?