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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> As reported by Tobias on IRC (in the context of =E2=80=98hpcguix-web=E2=
=80=99),
> checkouts managed by Guile-Git appear to grow beyond reason.  As an
> example, here=E2=80=99s the same =E2=80=98.git=E2=80=99 managed with Guil=
e-Git and with Git:
>
> $ du -hs ~/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27=
shj7apsnalwq
> 6.7G    /home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlay=
wmisyr27shj7apsnalwq
> $ du -hs .git
> 517M    .git

More data=E2=80=A6  The biggest file in that repo is a pack that was created
when that repo was first cloned (Aug. 2021):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ du /home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisy=
r27shj7apsnalwq/.git/objects/pack/* |sort -k1 -n| tail -3
44272	/home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmis=
yr27shj7apsnalwq/.git/objects/pack/pack-3c2f1857501b01c321bc67ba1f30704deb9=
e18e9.pack
47272	/home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmis=
yr27shj7apsnalwq/.git/objects/pack/pack-30d5b35ad14a8398464e49e224811b162f6=
73d66.pack
191492	/home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmi=
syr27shj7apsnalwq/.git/objects/pack/pack-d39507858782209d1ad87e389e4dffd4b6=
ff7ea2.pack
$ ls -l /home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywm=
isyr27shj7apsnalwq/.git/objects/pack/pack-d39507858782209d1ad87e389e4dffd4b=
6ff7ea2.pack
-r--r--r-- 1 ludo users 196079671 Aug  9  2021 /home/ludo/.cache/guix/check=
outs/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/.git/objects/pack=
/pack-d39507858782209d1ad87e389e4dffd4b6ff7ea2.pack
$ ls -ld /home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlayw=
misyr27shj7apsnalwq/.git/config
-rw-r--r-- 1 ludo users 266 Aug  9  2021 /home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/p=
jmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/.git/config
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The pack starts with things from Aug. 2021:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ git show-index < pack-d39507858782209d1ad87e389e4dffd4b6ff7ea2.idx|sort -=
k1 -n|head -3
12 30289f4d4638452520f52c1a36240220d0d940ff (852d8cb3)
927 d7ffc535c52f49177a8e5553569cdb1e321b5bc6 (2007c5d0)
1800 0a379de3249d5e9ff66fb404f7e5aa8ce2cb3d24 (b1e69aa4)
$ git show 30289f4d4638452520f52c1a36240220d0d940ff
commit 30289f4d4638452520f52c1a36240220d0d940ff
Author: Milkey Mouse <milkeymouse@meme.institute>
Date:   Sun Aug 8 22:15:40 2021 -0700

[=E2=80=A6]
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

=E2=80=A6 and at the bottom (large offsets) it contains very old blogs from=
 the
Nix repo that somehow made it here.

I figured we still had a =E2=80=98nix=E2=80=99 branch from the early days, =
that contains
the history of Nix.  I=E2=80=99ve now removed it, which helps a bit:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(git)
scheme@(guile-user)> ,t (clone "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git" =
"/tmp/guix")
$5 =3D #<git-repository 91a7b0>
;; 600.534529s real time, 435.260926s run time.  0.000000s spent in GC.
scheme@(guile-user)> ,t (clone "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git" =
"/tmp/guix-after-removing-nix-branch")
$6 =3D #<git-repository 4465a50>
;; 420.321511s real time, 398.772963s run time.  0.000000s spent in GC.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

=E2=80=A6 and more importantly:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ du -hs /tmp/guix/.git
373M	/tmp/guix/.git
$ du -hs /tmp/guix-after-removing-nix-branch/.git
362M	/tmp/guix-after-removing-nix-branch/.git
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Anyway, what seems to happen is that every pull (every call to
=E2=80=98remote-fetch=E2=80=99) creates a new pack (see =E2=80=98git_fetch_=
download_pack=E2=80=99 in
libgit2), which becomes inefficient in the long run (lots of small
poorly-compressed packs).  That=E2=80=99s at least one possible explanation.

To be continued=E2=80=A6

Ludo=E2=80=99.