[Kde-scm-interest] Re: Trial run of the kdelibs git

[Ian Monroe]

2010/12/6 Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>:
> Em Segunda-feira, 6 de Dezembro de 2010, às 15:54:55, Ian Monroe escreveu:
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt at viscovery.net> wrote:
>> > Am 12/5/2010 23:03, schrieb Ian Monroe:
>> >> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:01 PM, John Tapsell <johnflux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> On 5 December 2010 14:12, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
>> >>>> [250mb]
>> >>
>> >> That's just the .git.
>> >
>> > Did you try
>> >
>> >  git repack -a -d -f --depth=250 --window=250
>> >
>> > (note, this takes *time* and *memory*)?
>>
>> My recent experience with repack is that it actually increases the
>> size of the repo. A repo went from 360 all the way to 600.
>>
>> But it'd be worth playing around with this sort of thing before Dec 20.
>
> You did something wrong then.
>
> git-fast-import produces very poorly-packed repositories. Repacking is a must
> to reduce the size.

git gc --aggressive seem to do a great job. repacking on top of it...
not so much.

Ian