[Corpora-List] Using version control software in corpus construction

[Alberto Simões]

On 29/03/2010 20:45, Darren Pearce-Lazard wrote:
>     > * Is it possible to compress internal files in SVN or other
>     systems? (What I
>     > mean is that SVN would take care of compression of the internal
>     files in the
>     > repository but check-in/check-out works with plain text files)
> 
>     SVN uses zlib to compress all data in your repository. However, your
>     working copy is almost always exactly twice the size of the current
>     revision. It's quite safe to say that all other modern common version
>     control systems (git, mercurial..) are more space efficient than SVN,
>     if that matters to you.
> 
> 
> I could be wrong but my understanding is that git downloads the entire
> repository history so it is *much* larger than Subversion in terms of
> the size of the working copy. :-) I don't know about Mercurial.

Yes, I have that same opinion, that git is much larger in terms of disk
space. But not sure, I am mostly a SVN user...

-- 
Alberto Simões

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