From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: 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 14:56:28 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805121453250.23581@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080512184334.GB5160@mithlond.arda.local>
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Well, I don't really have any problems with the current behaviour; it
> just feels a bit strange that, for example, Linus's kernel repository
> grew about 90MB after just one update pull and gc.
That looks really odd. Sure the repo might grow a bit, but 90MB seems
really excessive. How many time did pass between the initial clone and
that subsequent pull?
> Also, dangling
> objects are kept forever in .keep packs (which are created with "git
> clone", for example).
A pack obtained via 'git clone' will never contain any dangling objects.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-12 18:57 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 [this message]
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
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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