Re: git-svn: .git/svn disk usage

["Kelvie Wong" <kelvie@ieee.org>]

I'm going to have to say this is due to the unhandled.log as well.

Just gzip -9 it (AFAIK it's not used for anything, but keep it just in case).

On Dec 2, 2007 10:46 PM, David Brown <git@davidb.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 07:37:51AM +0100, Pascal Obry wrote:
> >Ollie,
> >
> >> I'm curious if other developers have run into this issue.  If so, are
> >> there any proposals / plans for improving the storage of git-svn
> >> metadata?
> >
> >Did you run "git gc" after importing code form the subversion
> >repository? On my side I found that it has reduced drastically the size
> >of the local Git repository.
>
> I think the original poster is probably finding the space in the .git/svn
> directory.  'git-svn' keeps an index file for every branch in SVN.
>
> I suspect it does this for speed, at least on a large import, since the SVN
> commits will come across numerically, affecting the branches out of order.
>
> However, the index could fairly easily be extracted from git (since that is
> what it normally does).  In this case, where all of the indexes take
> significant space if this is worth it.
>
> Ollie, if you look in these svn branch directories, is most of the space
> taken up with files called 'index'?
>
> Browsing through the few svn clones that I have, the space seems to be
> roughly split between 'index' files and 'unhandled.log' files.
>
> Dave
>
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Kelvie Wong