From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: Centralized repository Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:50:11 +0100 Organization: Dewire Message-ID: <200702251650.13381.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <200702250951.37867.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, bob To: Andy Parkins X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 25 18:16:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HLMyv-0005ym-G4 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:16:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752376AbXBYRQO convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:16:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752388AbXBYRQO (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:16:14 -0500 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:1975 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752376AbXBYRQO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:16:14 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF583803393; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:11:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06568-02; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:11:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.9.0.3] (unknown [10.9.0.3]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69613802AB6; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:11:08 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 In-Reply-To: <200702250951.37867.andyparkins@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: s=F6ndag 25 februari 2007 10:51 skrev Andy Parkins: > On Sunday 2007, February 25, bob wrote: >=20 > > Anyway, for this one repository, I would really like GIT to support > > the CVS/SVN central repository system. The rest of the time, I am >=20 > In the case of subversion: you really /wouldn't/ want that model. =20 > Subversion keeps a local pristine copy in the .svn directory of every= =20 > file. This makes local diffs and stats fast and not require network=20 > access, but also doubles the storage requirements of your working=20 > directory. >=20 > I've found that a packed git repository is often smaller than a full=20 > checkout of the project (it's almost scary actually - your entire=20 > project's history in less space than the project). That doesn't apply to a repo full of (already compressed) binaries medi= a=20 files. You cannot pack them unless the binaries are so small that the = wasted=20 space at the end of the last disk block is a significant amount of the = total=20 used. You cannot diff them either, other than seeing that they are diff= erent.=20 Besides the 4 GB mentioned isn't much nowadays. If it is annoying to ha= ve=20 the .git directory in the same filesystem tree you can place the .git=20 directory somewhere else and drop a symbolic link in it's place.=20 Btw, is it possible to make a full repo shallow again, by pruning =20 the "uninteresting" part of the history? That would make it possible to= trim=20 down the size of the local archive.=20 -- robin