From: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:16:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Achieving efficient storage of weirdly structured repos
Message-ID: <DBD32AF9-AFF9-4DA2-9122-9997773C64ED@ai.rug.nl>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804040844470.2947@xanadu.home>


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