Re: object/pack size x5 larger than a fresh clone?

On 07/24/2010 11:57 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

Is there any reason why a fresh git clone has a object pack around
140MB but one that has been updated over the years has it over 700MB?
(even with git gc --aggressive --prune=now and git fsck?)

$ du .git/objects/
711364	.git/objects/pack

$ du *wine/.git/objects/pack
144692	git-wine/.git/objects/pack
144604	wine/.git/objects/pack

I had a problem with git fetch  "Cannot obtain needed object" from
wine's git repository (which seems to be something to do with http
proxy, although AFAIK I don't have one) since about 2 weeks ago which
obviously does not apply to anybody else as I would have heard from
wine-devel.

Editing .git/config to switch from a http url to git url cure it...
but in the course of investigating, I git clone fresh (there are only
about 3 local changes so I could just git-format-patch them and move
them)

http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git
git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git

and I am a bit surprised that the new clones are so much smaller than
the one I have been working on these last few years. (I have had the
old one for at least 3-4 years).

To make a fair comparison, try
  git repack -a -f -d && git prune --expire=now

in your old repository. Be warned that this will remove all commits
reachable from reflogs but not from branch heads or tags though.

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