Re: git-svn: .git/svn disk usage

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Dec 4, 2007, 08:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20071204082940.GA24630@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <65dd6fd50712030935p242895fvc2e4576448868403@mail.gmail.com>

On 2007-12-03 09:35:22 -0800, Ollie Wild wrote:

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> I'm seeing the following breakdown:
>
> 4.3G index
> 77M  unhandled.log
> 5.5G .rev_db.138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
>
> What exactly are the index and .rev_db files used for?

The indexes are just normal git index files, one for each branch and tag. They're used to speed up importing new commits to the branch or tag.

My guess is that the performance impact of deleting them between git-svn runs would be very small, since recreating an index is cheap, and we'd still get the speed benefit when importing several revisions to a branch in the same run. And it'd be a very small code change too, I think.

If nothing else, it's insane to keep the index for the tags. :-)

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