RE: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects

From: Nick Triantos <nick@perceptivepixel.com>
Date: Dec 22, 2009, 18:04 UTC
Message-ID: <75B8C0BEE0AE2A44AA971D218D9FE99E6B06F111@VMBX125.ihostexchange.net>
In-Reply-To: <28c656e20912220054qc7b6497t79e135c913865c22@mail.gmail.com>

I've tried running 'git gc' (which should be pruning) and that hasn't helped.

Is there an easy way to unpack the pack file and see what's inside (including sizes)?

thanks, -Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: B Smith-Mannschott [mailto:bsmith.occs@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:55 AM
To: Nick Triantos
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 17:34, Nick Triantos <nick@perceptivepixel.com> wrote:

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> 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