Awesome, it'll be interesting to see the results. Make sure you do

git repack -a -d -f --window=100 --depth=100

after converting from svn to git. Otherwise you'll have a lot of artifacts from the conversion lying around and the git repo will be HUGE.

(taken from http://marc.info/?l=git&m=120734745806416)

Thanks. I'll have a go. I'd be really surprised and impressed if the git repos is smaller than an svn checkout,

EDIT: Here's the results...

Subversion repository: 80M A Subversion checkout: 172M Git version: 121M

I'm surprised the subversion checkout is quite a bit larger, but it's not really enough to make me care all that much yet...

I do conceed that git compresses things well, although it's still quite a bit larger than the original svn repository.

I think the fact that SVN adds almost 100 megs of crap to your checkout does suck. But yeah, I don't think it's a deal breaker. I switched to Git for the features; the smaller "checkout" sizes was just an additional benefit.

Thanks for posting your results, I think it's very cool that you are not a Git fan but took the time to really look into it.

If you want to compare repository sizes you should compare the size of .git directory only.