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Re: Achieving efficient storage of weirdly structured repos

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PBPieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Date
Apr 4, 2008, 14:16 UTC
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On 4 apr 2008, at 15:11, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> I think we're simply facing the same situation as with the initial GCC
> repository which shrank from 3GB down to 300MB or so due to misfitted
> repacking parameters.

I'd say so too. I imported the first 14000 revisions of that hg repository and the resulting pack file was just 25 MB after repacking.

- Pieter
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Message 5 of 14 in “Achieving efficient storage of weirdly structured repos”
  1. Roman ShaposhnikApr 3, 2008
  2. Linus TorvaldsApr 3, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiApr 4, 2008
  4. Nicolas PitreApr 4, 2008
  5. Pieter de BieApr 4, 2008
  6. Shawn O. PearceApr 5, 2008
  7. Roman ShaposhnikApr 4, 2008
  8. Linus TorvaldsApr 4, 2008
  9. Roman ShaposhnikApr 6, 2008
  10. Linus TorvaldsApr 6, 2008
  11. Jeff KingApr 6, 2008
  12. Nicolas PitreApr 7, 2008
  13. Jeff KingApr 7, 2008
  14. Nicolas PitreApr 7, 2008

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