Comment (by Roland Haas):

One unrelated issue to mention: since git uses a delta compression between revisions in the repo, you likely will (eventually) have a smaller repository by storing an uncompressed tarball (just *.tar) rather than a compressed tarball (*.tar.gz) in the repo (since git can run a useful diff even on the tar file, but no on a compressed file since compression makes the whole file change if a single byte a the beginning of the tarfile changes). This is not much of an issue for the ET since it can (and will) use svn checkout to get just the ET_interface thorn and only the trunk copy (and not the full version history git would do).

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2551/include-reprimand-in-the-et