Re: irc usage..

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:

Or a slow leak in Perl? The 5.8.8 release notes do talk about some
leaks being fixed, but this 5.8.8 isn't making a difference.

Working on it.

Thanks. Looking at what I did convert, that horrid gentoo CVS tree is 
interesting. The resulting (partial) git history has 93413 commits and 
850,000+ objects total, all in a totally linear history.

And that's just up to April 2004, so the full tree is probably a million 
objects.

The good news is that git seems to handle that size repo no problem at 
all. The repack did indeed take a long while, but it packed it all down to 
a 189MB pack-file (and 20MB pack index).

Considering that the bzip2'd tar-file of the CVS history was 157MB, and 
the actual CVS footprint was about 1.6GB, if git stays at under a quarter 
gigabyte for the whole archive once converted (which sounds likely, 
counting indexing), git would basically cut down the disk usage for a live 
repo by a factor of 7 or so.

_And_ I can do a "git log origin > /dev/null" in about 2.4 seconds. Take 
that, CVS.

		Linus