From: B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:54:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects
Message-ID: <28c656e20912220054qc7b6497t79e135c913865c22@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <75B8C0BEE0AE2A44AA971D218D9FE99E3DD8C61C@VMBX125.ihostexchange.net>

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 17:34, Nick Triantos <nick@perceptivepixel.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently created a repo from SVN via git-svn.  The bare repo was about ~600MB.  I cloned it, and on the clone, I added 2 small files (.gitignore and .gitattributes) to a branch, merged them to master, and pushed that back to the origin.  The cloned repo remains at about 600MB, while my origin repo (the one from svn) is now about 2.4GB.  I found that it created a file in objects/pack which accounts for this huge size.
>
> I've tried running 'git repack -a -d' but that didn't shrink the size of this pack file.
>
> Any ideas why the pack file is so huge?  Anything I can do to shrink it?  My coworkers are understandably unhappy that the repo is so huge now (makes for very slow pulls)

Have you tried "git prune"?

// Ben