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From: Chandra Sukiman <tmcchandra@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Reduce number of changes to pack file.
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:33:20 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimFKGrSCgBShtERaGfd=9y+=q-aHsN3u5Lvf52v@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikqaD7QPCCw86OgGvCHLz1ySu5CzQXoY2rAojxB@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I am using git with Dropbox (see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/using-gitdropbox-together-effectively).
Basically I created a bare repository at dropbox and everyone uses
that for central repository.
As the repository size is getting bigger, sometime during the git gc,
it will create a huge .pack file (300 mb) which need to be uploaded
and downloaded by everyone.
I tried to limit the size of the pack to 10m (pack.packSizeLimit =
10m), but when doing gc, what happens now is that most of the pack
files will get re-arranged and modified. This will cause the same
upload/download issue that I want to solve.

Is there any way for git gc to reduce the number of file changed?

Thank you

Chandra

       reply	other threads:[~2011-03-28  3:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTikqaD7QPCCw86OgGvCHLz1ySu5CzQXoY2rAojxB@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-28  3:33 ` Chandra Sukiman [this message]
2011-03-28 13:29   ` Reduce number of changes to pack file Joshua Juran
2011-03-28 13:40   ` Santi Béjar

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