Re: Limiting disk usage

From: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 29, 2013, 13:50 UTC
Message-ID: <CAA01Cso+yTzatiAaQahx5h2N0nnOON7FsnWNSYrN-pV=8qzn7g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqob68ebcu.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > What can be done to limit amount of space occupied on clone and
> > checkout? I know about shallow clone and sparse checkout, anything
> > else?
>
> Sorry if I'm stating the obvious, but "git gc" is a good start. If you
> did something wrong with your repo before, maybe "git gc --aggressive"
> can help.

Yes, I put a lot of code into the repository. I know it is wrong from git POV ;) That's why I wrote about splitting repository into multiple smaller repositories, but AFAIK git is not very good at managing that too...

(Background: we're thinking about migrating svn repository into git. Currently there is one svn repository containing many related directories. They are branched/merged/tagged together. Often work is done on all/many of them, but there are some use cases where we need only some of them)

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Piotr Krukowiecki