From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:03:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802081250240.2732@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <200802081828.43849.kendy@suse.cz>

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jan Holesovsky wrote:

> Currently we are evaluating the usage of git for OpenOffice.org as one of the
> candidates (SVN is the other one), see
> 
>   http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SCM_Migration
> 
> I've provided a git import of OOo with the entire history; the problem is that
> the pack has 2.5G, so it's not too convenient to download for casual
> developers that just want to try it.  Shallow clone is not a possibility - we
> don't get patches through mailing lists, so we need the pull/push, and also
> thanks to the OOo development cycle, we have too many living heads which
> causes the shallow clone to download about 1.5G even with --depth 1.

How did you repack your repository?

We know that current defaults are not suitable for large projects.  For 
example, the gcc git repository shrinked from 1.5GB pack down to 230MB 
after some tuning.


Nicolas