[Nix-dev] Re: Re: new possible movement to git (?)

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Marc Weber wrote:

> Excerpts from Yury G. Kudryashov's message of Wed Aug 04 13:23:10 +0200
> 2010:
>> % git gc; du -sh
>> 66M
>> % du -sh .git
>> 41M
>> # Hence, the tree is 66-41=25M
>> % du -sh /etc/nixos/nixpkgs-svn
>> 130M
> 
>> Are you still sure that svn checkout use less disk space?
> Is your comparison fair? Did you include the checked out files in the
> git calculation?
Checked out files are 25M, .git directory is 41M.
> But I expect nixpkgs to grow. So in 10 years svn will be smaller because
> it doesn't store history.
That's too long period of time for me.