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From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
Cc: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dealing with many many git repos in a /home directory
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:00:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f91002040700x623a686ek4bc35d20f5d9cb86@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b18b3111002040029x1c7de0afw4a5ef883588f7a18@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:29 AM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is starting to take a lot of space.

What I used to do was to

 - have a "canonical" local bare repo for each major project, fetching
and repacking nightly

 - a script that "injects" an "alternates" entry to matching user
repos -- logic to look at a repo and decide which alternate to hook it
to is left to the reader.

 - optional: automating repacks on users repos

As users repack, their "local" packs will only have the objects that
are not shared with the canonical repos. With Moodle repos, this was a
200MB savings per repo.

And the kernel keeps one set of packfiles in buffers, so everyone gets
much faster gitk / gitlog / blame...



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-04 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-04  8:29 Dealing with many many git repos in a /home directory demerphq
2010-02-04  9:57 ` Alex Riesen
2010-02-04 15:20   ` Sergio
2010-02-04 15:00 ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2010-02-04 15:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-02-04 17:35 ` Nicolas Pitre

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