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git-svn: .git/svn disk usage

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OWOllie Wild <aaw@google.com>
Date
Dec 3, 2007, 06:17 UTC
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<65dd6fd50712022217l5f807f31pf3f00d82c3dccf5c@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,

I've been using git-svn to mirror the gcc repository at svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc. Recently, I noticed that my .git directory is consuming 11GB of disk space. Digging further, I discovered that 9.8GB of this is attributable to the .git/svn directory (which includes 200 branches and 2,588 tags). Given that my .git/objects directory is 652MB, it seems that it ought to be possible to store this information in a more compact form.

I'm curious if other developers have run into this issue. If so, are there any proposals / plans for improving the storage of git-svn metadata?

Thanks, Ollie

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