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Git's storage model is such that every commit is physically a snapshot of the entire work tree. Git makes this efficient with delta compression (essentially, de
by chousuke 12y ago
Git's storage model is such that every commit is physically a snapshot of the entire work tree. Git makes this efficient with delta compression (essentially, deduplication) which is extremely efficient for text (in fact an entire git repository can be smaller than a single SVN checkout) but is less effective with large binary files since changes don't produce compressible deltas.
- koenigdavidmj 12y ago> in fact an entire git repository can be smaller than a single SVN checkout Only because svn downloads the plain text of the server's version of every single file from the revision, so that "svn diff" doesn't have to hit the server.