Bug#1092608: vcswatch wrongly claims dpkg Git repository is > 500 MiB

Ben Harris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.quality-assurance
Message-ID <ee88432-97f0-2532-8b7-f60a93892__7289.73816601268$1736447612$gmane$org@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Package: qa.debian.org

According to <https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch?package=dpkg>:

> Error: Repository size 561401856 exceeds 500 MiB, blocking it

But a fresh clone of the cited repository is only 102 MiB, or 63 MiB
without a working copy:

wraith:/tmp$ git clone https://git.dpkg.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git
Cloning into 'dpkg'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 117336, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (3275/3275), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2024/2024), done.
remote: Total 117336 (delta 2355), reused 1560 (delta 1202), pack-reused 114061
Receiving objects: 100% (117336/117336), 58.38 MiB | 2.36 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (96940/96940), done.
wraith:/tmp$ du -hs dpkg
102M    dpkg
wraith:/tmp$ du -hs dpkg/.git
63M     dpkg/.git

I expect this has the same underlying cause as #1088731.
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