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Re: how to reduce disk usage for large .git dirs?

From
Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 14, 2014, 12:32 UTC
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<20141113120313.GB15503@aepfle.de>
W dniu 2014-11-13 13:03, Olaf Hering pisze:
 > On Thu, Nov 13, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:
[...]
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>> Your setup looks familiar to me for a subversion user switching to git
>> and trying to use git as subversion. The common usecase is not to have
>> multiple worktrees but to do a checkout to the worktree you need to work
>> on. This is possible with git since it's very fast and I recommend you
>> to try to use one worktree.
> Switching branches will invalidate timestamps, causing a full rebuild.

Wouldn't a better way of solving "full rebuild" issue be to use ccache or similar solution?

Anyway, switching branches invalidates timestamps only on those files that change between branches -- it is to avoid unnecessary rebuilds.

You can always clone with --reference, and use alternates (alternate object store). Just don't delete objects in repository that other repositories borrow from; GitHub uses refs/borrowers/ namespace for that, IIRC.

HTH
-- 
Jakub Narębski
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  1. Olaf HeringNov 13, 2014
  2. Fredrik GustafssonNov 13, 2014
  3. Olaf HeringNov 13, 2014
  4. Jakub NarębskiNov 14, 2014
  5. Roger GammansNov 13, 2014
  6. Olaf HeringNov 13, 2014
  7. Duy NguyenNov 13, 2014
  8. Olaf HeringNov 13, 2014
  9. Fredrik GustafssonNov 13, 2014
  10. Johan HerlandNov 13, 2014
  11. Jeff KingNov 13, 2014
  12. Olaf HeringNov 14, 2014
  13. Fredrik GustafssonNov 14, 2014
  14. Olaf HeringNov 14, 2014
  15. Olaf HeringNov 14, 2014
  16. Olaf HeringNov 14, 2014
  17. Andreas SchwabNov 14, 2014
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