[Ffmpeg-devel] SVN dump

[Loren Merritt]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:

> The most interesting point is the sizes of the repositories,
> compressed subversion dump file     159M
> subverion repository                124M
> packed git repository                19M
>
> That's the entire subversion history in 19M.  That's a much more
> manageable size for anyone who wanted the ability to fork.

Some more points I found interesting:

805867412 ffmpeg-svn-dump
165832859 ffmpeg-svn-dump.gz
   4601172 ffmpeg-svn-dump.lrz

  91566080 ffmpeg-svn.tar
  21777932 ffmpeg-svn.tar.gz
  16936128 ffmpeg-svn.tar.lrz

  17766400 ffmpeg-git.tar
  16747134 ffmpeg-git.tar.gz
  15984373 ffmpeg-git.tar.lrz

I wonder what svn-dump does that makes it so much more compressible than 
the repository itself, and can git do the same?

--Loren Merritt