From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Samuel Bronson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 02:14:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87k3eisirv.fsf@zigzag.favinet> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388801679 20663 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2014 02:14:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 02:14:39 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 04 03:14:47 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VzGlC-0002Sy-8L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 03:14:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzGlB-0002CN-KV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:14:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46306) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzGl3-00026z-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:14:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzGky-0004DN-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:14:37 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41040) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzGky-0004DH-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 21:14:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VzGks-0001wX-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 03:14:26 +0100 Original-Received: from 207-172-123-137.c3-0.upd-ubr1.trpr-upd.pa.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.123.137]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 03:14:26 +0100 Original-Received: from naesten by 207-172-123-137.c3-0.upd-ubr1.trpr-upd.pa.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 04 Jan 2014 03:14:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 207.172.123.137 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167245 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen gnu.org> writes: > 512M RAM is not enough to achieve the tantalizingly compact footprint > that "git gc --aggressive" purports. I'm a stubborn fool and will find I'm given to understand that "git gc --aggressive" does not actually pack things more efficiently in practice, and is thus a waste of time, memory, *and* disk space. See http://metalinguist.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/the-woes-of-git-gc-aggressive-and-how-git-deltas-work/ Also note Linus' suggestion to use "git repack" instead, perhaps with more aggressive options than the defaults.