File:Op-vs-size.png

Plot showing the space occupied after the named operations have finished.

Sample set is 789 text files from Project Gutenberg, 295 MB uncompressed.

The operations are (executed in this order):


 * create
 * Creation of repository / branch "first", commit of first version


 * checkout
 * Check out of first version (branch "first")


 * commit
 * Commit into branch "first"


 * branch
 * Creation of a new branch ("branch1") based on the branch "first"


 * checkoutB
 * Check out of branch "branch1"


 * commitB
 * Commit into branch "branch1"