From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" Subject: Re: Something is broken in repack Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:32:02 +0700 Message-ID: References: <9e4733910712071505y6834f040k37261d65a2d445c4@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910712102125w56c70c0cxb8b00a060b62077@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910712102129v140c2affqf2e73e75855b61ea@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910712102301p5e6c4165v6afb32d157478828@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910712110821o7748802ag75d9df4be8b2c123@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jon Smirl" , "Junio C Hamano" , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, "Git Mailing List" To: "Nicolas Pitre" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 13 14:32:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J2oAz-0003Uh-TF for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:32:34 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752044AbXLMNcJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:32:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751503AbXLMNcH (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:32:07 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:6704 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750983AbXLMNcE (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:32:04 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so559096nfb.21 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:32:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=UKq1n3z/BvQ30+uPcbVwewju/f4p/BsBADEUfSbklt8=; b=AdCnRP5u9WCSgLeIo3rAOTn9SqUrjteIIW5vM2uiMJCW42C0oWUqsd+SiHBYpYkp/MJknKcaE7ztIYesTxurlYsaBgLhUs4D5NzVN/Rb7hPAEgMYoFZkffuCda30cBmK1ww9URTw6dm9gXZTVK5gXRqlebKQzijTUxSO7hCYNA4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=vnRh4fHrTJdmVScJT2WZp7R7vfzArKr4abkIpxt8RZQGvP2oLSo9dZJ/8UuOsPmHKloy2VUZjgmnKJIsDElH5J9qlV9xNCy3705uyv9LmXHcyTXJjBUFNWIvH6sVx2dz7d56QPOZ+7JNtNCuLWzLoJMhxinzYyM9CYHUVGEBK48= Received: by 10.86.89.4 with SMTP id m4mr1836165fgb.14.1197552722658; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:32:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.83.6 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:32:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Dec 12, 2007 10:48 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > In the mean time you might have to use only one thread and lots of > memory to repack the gcc repo, or find the perfect memory allocator to > be used with Git. After all, packing the whole gcc history to around > 230MB is quite a stunt but it requires sufficient resources to > achieve it. Fortunately, like Linus said, such a wholesale repack is not > something that most users have to do anyway. Is there an alternative to "git repack -a -d" that repacks everything but the first pack? -- Duy