From: Kai Zhang <kai@netskope.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about git gc on large text files
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:40:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9D8F1E07-747B-49CF-B644-B8BDB63E94CE@netskope.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170817173314.qjzii4e4rybqqn34@sigill.intra.peff.net>
> On Aug 17, 2017, at 10:33 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:28:00AM -0700, Kai Zhang wrote:
>
>> I have a git repository maintaining one large json file (along with
>> several other small files). With commits for large json file, the
>> repository become bigger and bigger, so I tried to run command "git gc
>> --prune=now --aggressive" to reduce disk usage, then I found .git
>> folder size did not change. I had wonderful experience with git gc
>> against files around 10M to 20M, and I am wondering if there is any
>> configuration need to tweak for large text files?
>>
>> Here I have more details:
>> 1. Json file size: 1G
>
> Git won't try to delta-compress anything over 500MB by default. Try:
>
> git config core.bigfilethreshold 2G
> git gc --aggressive
>
> -Peff
It works! Thank you so much!
Kai
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2017-08-17 17:28 Question about git gc on large text files Kai Zhang
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