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From: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@Sun.COM>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Achieving efficient storage of weirdly structured repos
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 16:16:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DBD32AF9-AFF9-4DA2-9122-9997773C64ED@ai.rug.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804040844470.2947@xanadu.home>


On 4 apr 2008, at 15:11, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> I think we're simply facing the same situation as with the initial GCC
> repository which shrank from 3GB down to 300MB or so due to misfitted
> repacking parameters.

I'd say so too. I imported the first 14000 revisions of that hg  
repository and the resulting pack file was just 25 MB after repacking.

- Pieter

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-04 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-03 19:42 Achieving efficient storage of weirdly structured repos Roman Shaposhnik
2008-04-03 21:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-04  6:21   ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-04 13:11     ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-04-04 14:16       ` Pieter de Bie [this message]
2008-04-05  3:24       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-04-04 23:30   ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-04-04 23:57     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-06  0:13       ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-04-06  0:48         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-06 16:10           ` Jeff King
2008-04-07  0:13             ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-04-07  0:18               ` Jeff King
2008-04-07  0:36                 ` Nicolas Pitre

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