From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: Dealing with many many git repos in a /home directory Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:32:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <9b18b3111002040029x1c7de0afw4a5ef883588f7a18@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git To: demerphq X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 04 16:32:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nd3hL-0003Lz-Hr for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:32:51 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932691Ab0BDPcp (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:32:45 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:55781 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932278Ab0BDPco (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:32:44 -0500 Received: from mail01.m-online.net (mail.m-online.net [192.168.3.149]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEE891C1555B; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:32:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dynscan2.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.166]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D1190073; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:32:42 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.3.149]) by localhost (dynscan2.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.166]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wh6CKGxDe53f; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:32:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from igel.home (DSL01.83.171.156.41.ip-pool.NEFkom.net [83.171.156.41]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:32:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 71809CA294; Thu, 4 Feb 2010 16:32:41 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Hey, I LIKE that POINT!! In-Reply-To: <9b18b3111002040029x1c7de0afw4a5ef883588f7a18@mail.gmail.com> (demerphq@gmail.com's message of "Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:29:46 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: demerphq writes: > At $work we have a host where we have about 50-100 users each with > their own private copies of the same repos. These are cloned froma > remote via git/ssh and are not thus automatically hardlinking their > object stores. > > This is starting to take a lot of space. Create local mirrors of the remote repos (and update them regularily) and ask the users to borrow from them. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."