Re: Move to git is imminent - awaiting Stefan's approval

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:23:48 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Thanks.  "git gc" gets me from 1.18GB to 1.1GB.  I tried --aggressive,
> > but that ran out of memory (trying to allocate 1GB) after some time
> > and errored out.
> 
> That's strange:
> 
> oscar@qcore:~/dev/emacs/emacs$ time git gc
> Counting objects: 734772, done.
> Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
> Compressing objects: 100% (145032/145032), done.
> Writing objects: 100% (734772/734772), done.
> Total 734772 (delta 589118), reused 734312 (delta 588658)
> Checking connectivity: 734772, done.
> 
> oscar@qcore:~/dev/emacs/emacs$ du -sh .git
> 289M    .git
> oscar@qcore:~/dev/emacs/emacs$ git branch -a | wc
>     127     130    4667
> 
> 
> Maybe you instructed git to download extra info (such as the meta-data
> the fast-import/export process uses and is useful for relating git
> commits to their corresponding bzr commits.)

Nope, just "git clone" followed by pull's.

I now tried on fencepost.gnu.org, a 64-bit GNU/Linux system, with
similar results: gc goes from 1.78GB down to 1.6GB.  --aggressive also
fails there, funnily enough.