Re: Fwd: tag storage format

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On 10/24/2012 08:00 AM, Uri Moszkowicz wrote:
> Sorry to bother you again but apparently also need "git prune" or "git
> gc --aggressive --prune=now". It seems that hoards of object files are
> left around outside of the packs and "git gc" doesn't collect them
> unless you specify it.

I had already included "--prune=now".

The use of --aggressive is controversial, at least in many
circumstances.  It uses far more resources than "git gc" without
--aggressive, and I believe it often takes hours or fails to complete
due to lack of memory.  It supposedly doesn't usually help much either,
at least in day-to-day git usage, and can even hurt.

Of course a repository created from a cvs2git conversion and "git
fast-import" is not typical, so we shouldn't discount --aggressive out
of hand.  Have you done a comparison of "git gc --prune=now" vs. "git gc
--prune=now --aggressive" on your repo?  What are the differences in
runtime and in the size of the resulting repository?

Michael

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