From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Jan Holesovsky <kendy@suse.cz>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:03:49 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802081250240.2732@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802081828.43849.kendy@suse.cz>
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> Currently we are evaluating the usage of git for OpenOffice.org as one of the
> candidates (SVN is the other one), see
>
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SCM_Migration
>
> I've provided a git import of OOo with the entire history; the problem is that
> the pack has 2.5G, so it's not too convenient to download for casual
> developers that just want to try it. Shallow clone is not a possibility - we
> don't get patches through mailing lists, so we need the pull/push, and also
> thanks to the OOo development cycle, we have too many living heads which
> causes the shallow clone to download about 1.5G even with --depth 1.
How did you repack your repository?
We know that current defaults are not suitable for large projects. For
example, the gcc git repository shrinked from 1.5GB pack down to 230MB
after some tuning.
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-08 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 17:28 [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept Jan Holesovsky
2008-02-08 18:03 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2008-02-09 14:25 ` Jan Holesovsky
2008-02-09 22:05 ` Mike Hommey
2008-02-09 23:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-10 7:23 ` Marco Costalba
2008-02-10 12:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-10 16:46 ` David Symonds
2008-02-10 17:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-10 19:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-10 20:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 18:14 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-09 14:27 ` Jan Holesovsky
2008-02-08 18:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 18:49 ` Mike Hommey
2008-02-08 19:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-09 15:06 ` Jan Holesovsky
2008-02-08 19:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-08 19:26 ` Jon Smirl
2008-02-08 20:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-11 10:13 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-02-12 2:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] pack-objects: Allow setting the #threads equal to #cpus automatically Brandon Casey
2008-02-12 5:53 ` Andreas Ericsson
[not found] ` <1202784078-23700-1-git-send-email-casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
2008-02-12 2:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] pack-objects: Default to zero threads, meaning auto-assign to #cpus Brandon Casey
2008-02-12 4:57 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-08 20:19 ` [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept Harvey Harrison
2008-02-08 20:24 ` Jon Smirl
2008-02-08 20:25 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-08 20:41 ` Jon Smirl
2008-02-09 15:27 ` Jan Holesovsky
2008-02-10 3:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-10 4:59 ` Sean
2008-02-10 5:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-10 5:35 ` Sean
2008-02-11 1:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-11 2:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-11 10:11 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-10 9:34 ` Joachim B Haga
2008-02-10 16:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-10 17:01 ` Jon Smirl
2008-02-10 17:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-10 18:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-10 19:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-10 20:11 ` Jon Smirl
2008-02-12 20:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-12 21:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-12 21:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-12 21:36 ` Jon Smirl
2008-02-12 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-12 22:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-12 22:43 ` Jon Smirl
2008-02-12 23:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-12 21:25 ` Jon Smirl
2008-02-14 19:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-14 20:05 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-14 20:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-14 21:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-14 21:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-14 23:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-14 23:51 ` Brian Downing
2008-02-14 23:57 ` Brian Downing
2008-02-15 0:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-15 1:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-17 8:18 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-02-17 9:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-17 18:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-15 1:07 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-15 9:43 ` Jan Holesovsky
2008-02-14 21:08 ` Brandon Casey
2008-02-15 9:34 ` Jan Holesovsky
2008-02-10 19:50 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-14 19:41 ` Brandon Casey
2008-02-14 19:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-14 20:11 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-11 1:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-08 20:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 21:35 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-08 21:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 22:03 ` Mike Hommey
2008-02-08 22:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 22:50 ` Mike Hommey
2008-02-08 23:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 23:38 ` Mike Hommey
2008-02-09 21:20 ` Jan Hudec
2008-02-09 15:54 ` Jan Holesovsky
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