Re: irc usage..

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 22, 2006, 09:13 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605220203200.3697@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90605220042v369e9ff5o3dc7841472171d02@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> Or a slow leak in Perl? The 5.8.8 release notes do talk about some
> leaks being fixed, but this 5.8.8 isn't making a difference.
> 
> Working on it.

Thanks. Looking at what I did convert, that horrid gentoo CVS tree is interesting. The resulting (partial) git history has 93413 commits and 850,000+ objects total, all in a totally linear history.

And that's just up to April 2004, so the full tree is probably a million objects.

The good news is that git seems to handle that size repo no problem at all. The repack did indeed take a long while, but it packed it all down to a 189MB pack-file (and 20MB pack index).

Considering that the bzip2'd tar-file of the CVS history was 157MB, and the actual CVS footprint was about 1.6GB, if git stays at under a quarter gigabyte for the whole archive once converted (which sounds likely, counting indexing), git would basically cut down the disk usage for a live repo by a factor of 7 or so.

_And_ I can do a "git log origin > /dev/null" in about 2.4 seconds. Take that, CVS.

		Linus