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

From: Chris Lee <chris133@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 5, 2007, 20:48 UTC
Message-ID: <204011cb0701051248xdd9be8ch68db18ea93abd1f6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070105193958.GE8753@spearce.org>

On 1/5/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> 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.

Not nearly as expensive as git-repack, that's for sure. :)

And - I originally thought that adding '-d' to git-repack just told it to call 'git-prune' afterwards. It does more than that, which is cool. Happily importing away - up to r320k now.

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