Re: Large number of object files

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 24, 2012, 06:59 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CcMBJLV=urVoWOQABQzQkC6y35spPF+_3fW6dtJjHtvg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMJd5AS1=Cf--0=1Xynxf1J-22fxBq05XjNGMcUep+ndAOO7ig@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Uri Moszkowicz <uri@4refs.com> wrote:

> Continuing to work on improving clone times, using "git gc
> --aggressive" has resulted in a large number of tags combining into a
> single file but now I have a large number of files in the objects
> directory - 131k for a ~2.7GB repository.

Can you paste "git count-objects -v"? I'm curious why gc keeps so many loose objects around.

> Any way to reduce the number of these files to speed up clones?

An easy way to get rid of them is to clone the non-local way. Everything will be sent over a pack, the result would be a single pack in new repo. Try "git clone file:///path/to/source/repo new-repo". You can also try "git prune" on the existing repo (read its man page before use).

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Duy