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Re: git gc expanding packed data?

From
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Aug 8, 2009, 01:11 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
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> It appears that the git installation serving clone requests for
> git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git generates lots of unreferenced objects. I
> just cloned it and the pack I was sent contains 1383356 objects (can be
> determined with 'git show-index < .git/objects/pack/*.idx | wc -l').
> However, there are only 978501 actually referenced objects in that
> cloned repository ( 'git rev-list --all --objects | wc -l').  That makes
> for 404855 useless objects in the cloned repository.

Those objects are not useless. They are referenced by the remote refs on the remote side, which are not fetched by default. If you clone a mirror of the repository you'll see no unreferenced objects.

Andreas.
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Message 1 of 26 in “Re: git gc expanding packed data?”
  1. Andreas SchwabAug 8, 2009
  2. Hin-Tak LeungAug 8, 2009
  3. Andreas SchwabAug 8, 2009
  4. Nicolas PitreAug 9, 2009
  5. Andreas SchwabAug 9, 2009
  6. Jason MerrillSep 25, 2009
  7. Matthieu MoySep 25, 2009
  8. Jason MerrillSep 25, 2009
  9. Nicolas PitreSep 25, 2009
  10. Jason MerrillSep 25, 2009
  11. Nicolas PitreSep 25, 2009
  12. Jason MerrillSep 25, 2009
  13. Nicolas PitreSep 26, 2009
  14. make 'git clone' ask the remote only for objects it cares aboutNicolas Pitre, Sep 26, 2009
  15. Andreas SchwabSep 26, 2009
  16. Shawn O. PearceSep 26, 2009
  17. Nicolas PitreSep 27, 2009
  18. Jason MerrillSep 26, 2009
  19. Jason MerrillSep 26, 2009
  20. Nicolas PitreSep 27, 2009
  21. Nicolas PitreSep 27, 2009
  22. Shawn O. PearceSep 27, 2009
  23. Nicolas PitreSep 27, 2009
  24. Jason MerrillSep 27, 2009
  25. Nicolas PitreSep 28, 2009
  26. Hin-Tak LeungSep 26, 2009

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