From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Jelle Licht <jlicht@posteo.net>
Cc: 65720@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65720: Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:20:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87il8oln06.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CE9E1465-187B-462B-B9E2-94E6A43B86EC@posteo.net> (Jelle Licht's message of "Tue, 5 Sep 2023 08:22:48 +0000")
Hello,
Jelle Licht <jlicht@posteo.net> skribis:
>> On 4 Sep 2023, at 23:49, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> Of course having to re-clone entire repositories every 9 months is
>> ridiculous, but storing gigabytes of packs is worse IMO (I’m
>> specifically thinking about the Guix repo, which every users copies via
>> ‘guix pull’).
>
> Please ignore if it doesn’t make sense, or would not make a practical difference for the current issue, but wouldn’t a local clone do the trick here? As in, clone from the ‘clogged’ local repo, move over fresh clone to old location.
Good question.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
scheme@(guix git)> ,use(git)
scheme@(guix git)> (clone "/home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/" "/tmp/fresh-clone")
$7 = #<git-repository ba4240>
scheme@(guix git)> (system* "du" "-hs" "/tmp/fresh-clone")
6.7G /tmp/fresh-clone
$8 = 0
scheme@(guix git)> (system* "du" "-hs" "/tmp/fresh-clone/.git")
6.6G /tmp/fresh-clone/.git
$9 = 0
scheme@(guix git)> (system* "du" "-hs" "/home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/")
6.7G /home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/
$10 = 0
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Conclusion: it makes no difference.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-05 14:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-03 20:44 bug#65720: Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-04 21:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-05 8:18 ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-09-05 14:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-06 8:04 ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-09-08 17:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-11 7:00 ` Csepp
2023-09-11 8:42 ` bug#65720: Digression about Git implementations (was Re: bug#65720: Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much) Simon Tournier
2023-09-11 14:42 ` bug#65720: Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much wolf
2023-09-13 18:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-13 22:36 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-07 0:41 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-08 17:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-09 10:31 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-11 7:06 ` Csepp
2023-09-11 14:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-10-20 16:15 ` bug#65720: [PATCH] git: Shell out to ‘git gc’ when necessary Ludovic Courtès
2023-10-23 10:08 ` Simon Tournier
2023-10-23 22:27 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-10-23 23:28 ` bug#65720: Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much Simon Tournier
2023-10-30 12:02 ` bug#65720: [bug#66650] [PATCH] git: Shell out to ‘git gc’ when necessary Christopher Baines
2023-11-14 9:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-11-14 9:32 ` Simon Tournier
2023-11-16 12:12 ` [bug#66650] " Ludovic Courtès
2023-11-16 13:24 ` Simon Tournier
2023-11-22 11:17 ` bug#65720: " Ludovic Courtès
2023-11-22 11:57 ` [bug#66650] bug#65720: Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much Simon Tournier
2023-11-22 11:57 ` Simon Tournier
2023-11-22 16:00 ` bug#66650: " Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-05 8:22 ` Jelle Licht
2023-09-05 14:20 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-09-05 18:59 ` Simon Tournier
2023-09-05 14:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-18 22:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-19 7:19 ` Simon Tournier
2023-11-23 11:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
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