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Re: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects

From
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date
Dec 22, 2009, 17:41 UTC
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On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Nick Triantos wrote:
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> I recently created a repo from SVN via git-svn.  The bare repo was 
> about ~600MB.  I cloned it, and on the clone, I added 2 small files 
> (.gitignore and .gitattributes) to a branch, merged them to master, 
> and pushed that back to the origin.  The cloned repo remains at about 
> 600MB, while my origin repo (the one from svn) is now about 2.4GB.  I 
> found that it created a file in objects/pack which accounts for this 
> huge size.
> 
> I've tried running 'git repack -a -d' but that didn't shrink the size 
> of this pack file.
This is rather weird.

Any chance the original repository could be downloaded somewhere in order to attempt reproducing this issue?

Nicolas
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  1. Nick TriantosDec 16, 2009
  2. B Smith-MannschottDec 22, 2009
  3. Nick TriantosDec 22, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 22, 2009
  5. Huge pack file from small unpacked objectsNick Triantos, Dec 22, 2009
  6. Nicolas PitreDec 22, 2009

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