FYI, emacs.git repo size: now 155M, was 1.1G

FYI, emacs.git repo size: now 155M, was 1.1G

[Jim Meyering]

FYI, I just checked on the emacs.git repository
and found it to be unexpectedly large at over 1 GiB:

    $ du -sh .; git gc; du -sh .
    1.1G    .
    Counting objects: 539769, done.
    Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
    Compressing objects: 100% (127621/127621), done.
    Writing objects: 100% (539769/539769), done.
    Total 539769 (delta 423801), reused 524422 (delta 411781)
    Removing duplicate objects: 100% (256/256), done.
    155M    .

So I ran git's garbage-collector and that brought the size down to 155M.

Note that if your own emacs/.git/ directory is larger than say 200M,
you too can save some space by running "git gc".

Re: FYI, emacs.git repo size: now 155M, was 1.1G

[David Reitter]

On Oct 9, 2009, at 4:31 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
> Note that if your own emacs/.git/ directory is larger than say 200M,
> you too can save some space by running "git gc".

Wouldn't it do that automatically once a month?

The other space-saving function is "git-new-workdir".  I think it's  
"contrib" rather than installed by default, but it's a life-saver when  
"git checkout" takes a bit too long (it takes maybe 5 seconds for me  
to switch to another branch with my Emacs repository).  It creates a  
separate directory with just a different branch, while sharing the a  
central (yet local) repository.  Kind of like how Bazaar does it.   
This saves a lot of space - and time: it's a excellent solution when  
re-building takes a long time after switching branches.