Re: git-svnimport failed and now git-repack hates me

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 5, 2007, 19:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20070105193958.GE8753@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <204011cb0701051133r1ede14a6gd5093a3e7fa88cb5@mail.gmail.com>

Chris Lee <chris133@gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, 'git-prune' took about 30 minutes to run to completion. Oddly,
> git-prune didn't remove the older packs - does git-prune ignore packs?
> 'git-repack -a -d' did remove them.

git-prune is expensive. Very expensive on very large projects, as it must iterate every object to decide what is needed, before it can start to remove objects that aren't needed.

Yes, it doesn't deal with removing pack files. That's what the -d to git-repack is for.

-- 
Shawn.

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