Re: [QUESTION] Access to a huge GIT repository.

From: Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 19, 2005, 12:23 UTC
Message-ID: <cda58cb80511190423w1e46bf5bu@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511171443000.13959@g5.osdl.org>

2005/11/17, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>:

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> > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Franck wrote:
> >
> > ok that's what I was trying to do by killing the parent object.  Now
> > when looking a the graph using gitk all old objects have been removed.
> > But I'm suprised because the git repository is the same size as it was
> > before pruning all old objects. Can you explain why ?
>
> make sure you re-pack if it was packed. "git prune" will not remove packs
> at all, so..
>

I just looked at git-prune script and it seems to remove unreachable objects only in .git/objects/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f] directories, not in pack files.

Then by running git-repack -a -d, I build a new small pack that contains only latest objects, but then the script runs git-redundant-pack script which erases the new small one since all its objects are included in the old big one. Is that correct ? If so git-redundant-pack script could return the oldest redundant ?

Thanks
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               Franck