Re: Dealing with many many git repos in a /home directory

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:29 AM, demerphq [off-list ref] wrote:

This is starting to take a lot of space.

What I used to do was to

 - have a "canonical" local bare repo for each major project, fetching
and repacking nightly

 - a script that "injects" an "alternates" entry to matching user
repos -- logic to look at a repo and decide which alternate to hook it
to is left to the reader.

 - optional: automating repacks on users repos

As users repack, their "local" packs will only have the objects that
are not shared with the canonical repos. With Moodle repos, this was a
200MB savings per repo.

And the kernel keeps one set of packfiles in buffers, so everyone gets
much faster gitk / gitlog / blame...



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