Distributed version control for HUGE projects - is it feasible?

Question

We\'re pretty happy with SVN right now, but Joel\'s tutorial intrigued me. So I was wondering - would it be feasible in our situation too?

The thing is - our SVN reposit

Answer 1

I am using git on a fairly large c#/.net project (68 projects in 1 solution) and the TFS footprint of a fresh fetch of the full tree is ~500Mb. The git repo, storing a fair amount of commits locally weighs in at ~800Mb. The compaction and the way that storage works internally in git is excellent. It is amazing to see so many changes packed in to such a small amount of space.