From: Kelvie Wong Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:53:08 GMT Subject: Re: git-svn: .git/svn disk usage Message-ID: <94ccbe710712022253t3b1834bcs9facbf34717c7faa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071203064603.GA18583@old.davidb.org> I'm going to have to say this is due to the unhandled.log as well. Just gzip -9 it (AFAIK it's not used for anything, but keep it just in case). On Dec 2, 2007 10:46 PM, David Brown wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 07:37:51AM +0100, Pascal Obry wrote: > >Ollie, > > > >> 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? > > > >Did you run "git gc" after importing code form the subversion > >repository? On my side I found that it has reduced drastically the size > >of the local Git repository. > > I think the original poster is probably finding the space in the .git/svn > directory. 'git-svn' keeps an index file for every branch in SVN. > > I suspect it does this for speed, at least on a large import, since the SVN > commits will come across numerically, affecting the branches out of order. > > However, the index could fairly easily be extracted from git (since that is > what it normally does). In this case, where all of the indexes take > significant space if this is worth it. > > Ollie, if you look in these svn branch directories, is most of the space > taken up with files called 'index'? > > Browsing through the few svn clones that I have, the space seems to be > roughly split between 'index' files and 'unhandled.log' files. > > Dave > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Kelvie Wong