Mozilla‘s CVS repository was 2.7 GB in size; when imported to Subversion the size grew to 8.2 GB, and when put under Git the size got shrunk to 450 MB. For a source code of
size 350 MB it‘s fairly nice to have the whole project history (from 1998) with just 100 MB more space.
from Packt.Publishing.Git.Version.Control.for.Everyone,.Beginner‘s.Guide.(2013)
