From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LbiVm-0006di-Qi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:38:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2B81E052E; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:37:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mrs.stonybrook.edu (mrs.stonybrook.edu [129.49.1.206]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC133E052B for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:37:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay1.stonybrook.edu (relay1 [172.30.255.13]) by mrs.stonybrook.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n1NLbujr020968 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:37:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailrelay.stonybrook.edu ([172.30.255.13]) by relay1.stonybrook.edu (SMSSMTP 4.1.16.48) with SMTP id M2009022316375713557 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:37:57 -0500 Received: from sparky.ic.sunysb.edu (root@sparky.ic.sunysb.edu [129.49.1.3]) by mailrelay.stonybrook.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n1NLbuAs020967 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:37:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (root@sparky [129.49.1.3]) by sparky.ic.sunysb.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n1NLbuvT018134 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:37:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:37:56 -0500 From: Benjamin Bannier To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Re: overlay move to git Message-ID: <20090223163756.4ed0dcd2@stonybrook.edu> In-Reply-To: <49A30ECE.8010909@j-schmitz.net> References: <1235331956.19524.31.camel@localhost> <20090223090855.76aac1b2@gentoo.org> <200902231318.25035.alexxy@gentoo.org> <49A2978A.40301@j-schmitz.net> <49A2E2B7.50107@j-schmitz.net> <1bd893420902231151m3e74e5bdpdefdb51d03a97918@mail.gmail.com> <49A303A4.2010708@j-schmitz.net> <1bd893420902231252v4637357dp96a2cf3e57aaae39@mail.gmail.com> <49A30D67.80304@j-schmitz.net> <49A30ECE.8010909@j-schmitz.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/Wr9HTShGnZBGpw8006WvbJe"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 7610d331-34b1-4c71-9590-30e3824aa35b X-Archives-Hash: e13413c34a9b797b5dc5a2e4dfc4e4ad --Sig_/Wr9HTShGnZBGpw8006WvbJe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:02:06 +0100 Justin wrote: > > 150mb adn it shrinked with git gc --agressive down to 120mb. > >=20 > > What I did was pulling other overlays as branch, doing an > > filterbranch and only merging certain thing. perhaps this is > > something different than branching the repo itself. > >=20 > and of course deleted the branches afterwards This can be a bit confusing, but even though these branches are deleted they are still saved as refs in your repository. Only after a certain time they get cleaned up by git gc. Have a look at the configuration section of # git help gc In particular, look at the value of gc.reflogExpire you are currently using. Cheers, Benjamin --Sig_/Wr9HTShGnZBGpw8006WvbJe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAkmjFzQACgkQVj4CPF3kbQzTMQCYw4PZW/bsqgeahoibs4BB5f3m BgCfUVBzEoZdEV0mV8WRQz0Z6zHtxME= =FsOy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Wr9HTShGnZBGpw8006WvbJe--