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git has the option to use hard links when doing a clone. I've also seen some very spectacular compression achieved with git packs. are you possibly comparing to a git repository that hasn't been packed?
What do LWN-ers use ?
Posted Mar 19, 2008 20:36 UTC (Wed) by astrophoenix (guest, #13528) [Link]
you're probably correct; I was probably comparing an unpacked git repo to a mercurial repo when I said mercurial took less space.
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