Re: Big repo not shrinking on repack or gc?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:51:30PM +0100, Andreas Krey wrote:

> I have a repo here that is 130G, but when I clone --mirror it, the result
> is only 25G big.  Because of the --mirror I don't think that I missed
> any refs that keep objects only in the source repo.

Perhaps some objects are mentioned by reflogs, but not by the refs? They
would not be transferred as part of a clone. Try:

  git rev-list --objects --all | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort >reachable
  git rev-list --objects --reflog | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort >reflogs
  comm -13 reachable reflogs |
  git cat-file --batch-check='%(objectsize:disk)' |
  perl -lne '$total += $_; END { print $total }'

That should print the size, in bytes, that reflog-only objects are using
on disk.  You can use "git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=now --all"
to get rid of them (and then repack).

> I already tried 'git repack -fad' and 'git gc' to shrink the original repo,

You don't need the "-f" here. Just "git repack -ad" should be enough
(and the "-f" probably makes it _way_ slower).

-Peff