From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: object/pack size x5 larger than a fresh clone?
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:09:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4D42BA.6070900@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimL+wfu+yMPutq2VHD6vO2AtaF_7FpWt8aZPm1c@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/24/2010 11:57 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Is there any reason why a fresh git clone has a object pack around
> 140MB but one that has been updated over the years has it over 700MB?
> (even with git gc --aggressive --prune=now and git fsck?)
>
> $ du .git/objects/
> 711364 .git/objects/pack
>
> $ du *wine/.git/objects/pack
> 144692 git-wine/.git/objects/pack
> 144604 wine/.git/objects/pack
>
> I had a problem with git fetch "Cannot obtain needed object" from
> wine's git repository (which seems to be something to do with http
> proxy, although AFAIK I don't have one) since about 2 weeks ago which
> obviously does not apply to anybody else as I would have heard from
> wine-devel.
>
> Editing .git/config to switch from a http url to git url cure it...
> but in the course of investigating, I git clone fresh (there are only
> about 3 local changes so I could just git-format-patch them and move
> them)
>
> http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git
> git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git
>
> and I am a bit surprised that the new clones are so much smaller than
> the one I have been working on these last few years. (I have had the
> old one for at least 3-4 years).
To make a fair comparison, try
git repack -a -f -d && git prune --expire=now
in your old repository. Be warned that this will remove all commits
reachable from reflogs but not from branch heads or tags though.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-26 8:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-24 21:57 object/pack size x5 larger than a fresh clone? Hin-Tak Leung
2010-07-26 8:09 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2010-07-26 18:42 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-07-27 16:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-07-27 17:03 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-07-27 21:15 ` Hin-Tak Leung
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