From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files?
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 23:08:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080512210807.GA22221@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080512210304.GA17352@glandium.org>
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:03:04PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:24:14PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > But I have experienced the same earlier with some other post-1.5.5
> > version so I believe you can reproduce this yourself. After cloning
> > Linus's linux-2.6 repo its .git directory weights 209MB. After single
> > "git pull" and "git gc" it was 298MB in my test.
>
> I noticed that a while ago: when repacking multiple packs when one has a
> .keep file, the resulting additional pack contains too many blobs and
> trees, contrary to when only packing loose objects:
(...)
That is, it seems to also contain all the blobs and subtrees for all the
commits the pack contains, even when they already are in the pack having
a .keep file.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-12 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-12 12:29 Why repository grows after "git gc"? / Purpose of *.keep files? Teemu Likonen
2008-05-12 15:52 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-12 17:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-12 18:43 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-12 18:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-12 19:09 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-12 19:36 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-12 20:10 ` Govind Salinas
2008-05-12 21:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-12 21:07 ` Govind Salinas
2008-05-12 20:24 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-12 21:03 ` Mike Hommey
2008-05-12 21:08 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2008-05-13 0:12 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-13 5:33 ` Mike Hommey
2008-05-14 1:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-14 6:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-14 9:10 ` Juergen Ruehle
2008-05-14 14:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-14 17:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-14 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-14 20:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-14 20:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-14 20:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-14 23:24 ` A Large Angry SCM
2008-05-12 21:07 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-05-12 17:17 ` David Tweed
2008-05-12 23:49 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-12 23:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-13 0:09 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-13 5:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-05-13 5:22 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-05-13 9:22 ` Teemu Likonen
2008-05-13 21:46 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-05-14 5:42 ` Teemu Likonen
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