Description: The site is intended to dispel myths about Subversion and Git. Although it doesn't tell which VCS is better, it helps you to understand the actual state of affairs.
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There are a number of Subversion vs. Git comparisons around the web and most of them are based on myths rather than facts. The list below is intended to bust some of these myths. Although it doesn't tell which version control system is better, it should help you to understand the actual state of affairs.
The particular delta compression algorithms used in both version control systems differ in many details, but in general Subversion and Git store data in the same way. This results in the fact that Subversion and Git repositories with equivalent data will have approximately the same size . Except for the case of storing a lot of binary files, when Subversion repositories could be significantly smaller than Git ones (because Subversion’s xdelta delta compression algorithm works both for binary and text files)
Example: repository size benchmarks