From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Git and GCC Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:48:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20071205.204848.227521641.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4aca3dc20712051947t5fbbb383ua1727c652eb25d7e@mail.gmail.com> <20071205.202047.58135920.davem@davemloft.net> <4aca3dc20712052032n521c344cla07a5df1f2c26cb8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ismail@pardus.org.tr, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, git@vger.kernel.org To: dberlin@dberlin.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 06 05:49:13 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 1J08fe-0000MI-2v for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:49:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752419AbXLFEst (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 23:48:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752436AbXLFEst (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 23:48:49 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47820 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752242AbXLFEst (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 23:48:49 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sunset.davemloft.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56C8FC8C15C; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:48:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4aca3dc20712052032n521c344cla07a5df1f2c26cb8@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: From: "Daniel Berlin" Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 23:32:52 -0500 > On 12/5/07, David Miller wrote: > > From: "Daniel Berlin" > > Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 22:47:01 -0500 > > > > > The size is clearly not just svn data, it's in the git pack itself. > > > > And other users have shown much smaller metadata from a GIT import, > > and yes those are including all of the repository history and branches > > not just the trunk. > I followed the instructions in the tutorials. > I followed the instructions given to by people who created these. > I came up with a 1.5 gig pack file. > You want to help, or you want to argue with me. Several people replied in this thread showing what options can lead to smaller pack files. They also listed what the GIT limitations are that would effect the kind of work you are doing, which seemed to mostly deal with the high space cost of branching and tags when converting to/from SVN repos.