Re: Repository is moving

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:07 PM, James Henstridge <[email protected]> wrote:
> 3. I was a bit surprised that the repository data was so much larger:
> 2.2MB for Bazaar and 7.5MB for Git.  I thought Git did better than
> that in comparison to the Bazaar format we were using.  Could there be
> something from another project hiding in there?  Running "git gc"
> didn't seem to clear any space.

I did a bit of googling about this, and found the repack command.  The
following command was able to bring the repository size down to 968KB:

    git repack -a -f --window=300 --depth=300

[This is about the same size as what the the repository format in
development for Bazaar 2.0 gives, which is a nice validation].

You might want to run a command like this on the server to make the
initial download a bit quicker.

James.