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From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Simon Chiang" <simon.a.chiang@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Do moves add to repository size?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:17:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0812310717w341f05b5qeb058ff1c2db19d2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85fafb0c0812310111s552247em5f0ca57b737aedc3@mail.gmail.com>

2008/12/31 Simon Chiang <simon.a.chiang@gmail.com>:
> Hey, I'm quite curious to know if moves/renames duplicate the file
> content in the repository (and hence grow the repository size) or if
> they just change the location of the content.  I want to drastically
> reorganize a repository and I'm wondering if will double it in size.

It wont double its size, but it will grow a little: the tree objects
which contain names of the data (the file names) will be all changed.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-31 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-31  9:11 Do moves add to repository size? Simon Chiang
2008-12-31  9:46 ` demerphq
2008-12-31 15:17 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-12-31 15:53   ` Simon Chiang

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