Re: pack-e3117bbaf6a59cb53c3f6f0d9b17b9433f0e4135.pack

From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Date: Jul 8, 2005, 08:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20050708081859.GG20369@mythryan2.michonline.com>
In-Reply-To: <200507081149.45344.adobriyan@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:49:45AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

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> Being a happy user of
> 
> 	$ cat ./rsync-linus
> 	#!/bin/sh -x
> 
> 	cd linux-linus
> 	rsync -avz --progress \
> 	        rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ \
> 	        .git/
> 
> I'm confused now. This pack file is ~60M in size. Will rsync download
> another 60M next time? What command should I use now to a) get latest and
> greatest and b) be nice with my traffic?

You won't need to download another 60M next time.

Run this:
	cd linux-linus
	du -sh .
	git-prune-packed
	du -sh .

You should see a nice drop i space used, as that one big "pack" file is now taking the place of almost every object in the kernel repository.

In the future, you'll just download new packs as Linus generates them. I suspect objects will trickle in as well, but an occassional git-prune-packed will tidy things back up.

The packs internally use a delta-based algorithm to save huge amounts of space, and for speed of daily use, the standalone objects are still in use.

-- 
Ryan Anderson
  sometimes Pug Majere