# Do moves add to repository size? 4 messages from 2008-12-31 to 2008-12-31. Participants: Simon Chiang, demerphq, Alex Riesen. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16942 ## Simon Chiang, 2008-12-31 09:11 Subject: Do moves add to repository size? Message-ID: <85fafb0c0812310111s552247em5f0ca57b737aedc3@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/85fafb0c0812310111s552247em5f0ca57b737aedc3%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hey, I'm quite curious to know if moves/renames duplicate the file content in the repository (and hence grow the repository size) or if they just change the location of the content. I want to drastically reorganize a repository and I'm wondering if will double it in size. Thanks, - Simon ``` ## demerphq, 2008-12-31 09:46 Subject: Re: Do moves add to repository size? Message-ID: <9b18b3110812310146r48a15907q2bf88d81b6bf4e0f@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/9b18b3110812310146r48a15907q2bf88d81b6bf4e0f%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <85fafb0c0812310111s552247em5f0ca57b737aedc3@mail.gmail.com> ``` 2008/12/31 Simon Chiang : > Hey, I'm quite curious to know if moves/renames duplicate the file > content in the repository (and hence grow the repository size) or if > they just change the location of the content. I want to drastically > reorganize a repository and I'm wondering if will double it in size. No it wont. Git uses a content addressable storage. And since in a rename the content doesnt change.... Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/" ``` ## Alex Riesen, 2008-12-31 15:17 Subject: Re: Do moves add to repository size? Message-ID: <81b0412b0812310717w341f05b5qeb058ff1c2db19d2@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/81b0412b0812310717w341f05b5qeb058ff1c2db19d2%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <85fafb0c0812310111s552247em5f0ca57b737aedc3@mail.gmail.com> ``` 2008/12/31 Simon Chiang : > Hey, I'm quite curious to know if moves/renames duplicate the file > content in the repository (and hence grow the repository size) or if > they just change the location of the content. I want to drastically > reorganize a repository and I'm wondering if will double it in size. It wont double its size, but it will grow a little: the tree objects which contain names of the data (the file names) will be all changed. ``` ## Simon Chiang, 2008-12-31 15:53 Subject: Re: Do moves add to repository size? Message-ID: <85fafb0c0812310753p6c112bd3q37ac772b5b82c05d@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/85fafb0c0812310753p6c112bd3q37ac772b5b82c05d%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0812310717w341f05b5qeb058ff1c2db19d2@mail.gmail.com> ``` Great thanks! I suspected that was the case. ```