From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Converted git repository available for review
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:04:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ior2v385.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3bi1m3m.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:47:25 +0000")
phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
>>>
>>> gc does some repacking and compression, not just garbage collection per se.
>>
>> Sure, but why should any of that end up on gitorious if gitorious
>> already has all the references from the last time you pushed?
>
>
> Probably it would be easier to just try it and see. CPUs are
> generally cheaper to run than brains.
Except that we are not talking CPU time here but rather network and
storage capacity. For an actual complete history rewrite, it might be
more polite to delete the existing repository and recreate it rather
than letting 16 Gigabyte per rewrite sit around at Gitorious for three
months until git gc finally cleans it up there.
--
David Kastrup
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-25 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-21 20:00 Converted git repository available for review Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-21 22:00 ` Stefan
2014-03-21 22:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-21 22:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-22 1:00 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-22 3:00 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-22 3:37 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-22 3:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-22 4:29 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-22 14:56 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-22 18:47 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-24 9:24 ` .gitignore and .bzrignore files Nicolas Richard
2014-03-24 10:38 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-24 11:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-24 15:54 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-03-24 22:44 ` Achim Gratz
2014-03-22 4:41 ` Converted git repository available for review Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-22 7:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-22 7:38 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-22 7:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-22 11:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-22 9:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-22 11:47 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-22 9:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-22 8:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-22 9:20 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-22 9:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-22 11:03 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-24 22:33 ` James Cloos
2014-03-24 22:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-25 7:57 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-25 10:54 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-25 11:04 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-25 11:32 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-25 11:39 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-25 11:50 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-25 12:47 ` Phillip Lord
2014-03-25 13:04 ` David Kastrup [this message]
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