Re: FYI, GIT mirror of glibc's cvs repository

[Pierre Habouzit <madcoder at debian dot org>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:47:12PM +0000, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I've set up a read-only git mirror of glibc's CVS repository.
> The cvs-to-git synchronization process will probably run every
> half hour or so (haven't started it yet).
> 
> Here's the gitweb interface:
> 
>     http://sources.redhat.com/git/gitweb.cgi
> 
> Check out a copy via the following, but be aware
> that the bare .git/ directory weighs in at 270MB:

  have you tried to repack it like, very aggressively ? My own (broken)
imports were less than 140Mo big, often with a ~110Mo packfile.

  Try to:
 
$ git repack -afd --window=250 --depth=250 --window-memory=$A_LOT

  on the machine you can work on that has the biggest amount of free RAM
(chose $A_LOT so that it doesn't swap). It should take something like a
few hours, and give you a really neater packfile.

CHeers,
-- 
ÂOÂ  Pierre Habouzit
ÂÂO                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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