# RE: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects 6 messages from 2009-12-16 to 2009-12-22. Participants: Nick Triantos, B Smith-Mannschott, Nicolas Pitre, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21969 ## Nick Triantos, 2009-12-16 16:34 Subject: RE: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects Message-ID: <75B8C0BEE0AE2A44AA971D218D9FE99E3DD8C61C@VMBX125.ihostexchange.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/75B8C0BEE0AE2A44AA971D218D9FE99E3DD8C61C%40VMBX125.ihostexchange.net In-Reply-To: <404585ED79625A40AB5A9884ECA9A63B3E02083F@VMBX125.ihostexchange.net> ``` Hi, 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. Any ideas why the pack file is so huge?  Anything I can do to shrink it?  My coworkers are understandably unhappy that the repo is so huge now (makes for very slow pulls) thanks, -Nick ``` ## Nick Triantos, 2009-12-22 06:19 Subject: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects Message-ID: <75B8C0BEE0AE2A44AA971D218D9FE99E6B06F030@VMBX125.ihostexchange.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/75B8C0BEE0AE2A44AA971D218D9FE99E6B06F030%40VMBX125.ihostexchange.net In-Reply-To: <404585ED79625A40AB5A9884ECA9A63B3E02083F@VMBX125.ihostexchange.net> ``` Hi, (re-sending.. I'm not sure if my last send made it to the list, I got a bounce because it had HTML.) 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. Any ideas why the pack file is so huge?  Anything I can do to shrink it?  My coworkers are understandably unhappy that the repo is so huge now (makes for very slow pulls) thanks, -Nick ``` ## B Smith-Mannschott, 2009-12-22 08:54 Subject: Re: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects Message-ID: <28c656e20912220054qc7b6497t79e135c913865c22@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/28c656e20912220054qc7b6497t79e135c913865c22%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <75B8C0BEE0AE2A44AA971D218D9FE99E3DD8C61C@VMBX125.ihostexchange.net> ``` On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 17:34, Nick Triantos wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > Any ideas why the pack file is so huge?  Anything I can do to shrink it?  My coworkers are understandably unhappy that the repo is so huge now (makes for very slow pulls) Have you tried "git prune"? // Ben ``` ## Nicolas Pitre, 2009-12-22 17:41 Subject: Re: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LFD.2.00.0912221238180.28241%40xanadu.home In-Reply-To: <75B8C0BEE0AE2A44AA971D218D9FE99E6B06F030@VMBX125.ihostexchange.net> ``` On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Nick Triantos wrote: > 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 ``` ## Nick Triantos, 2009-12-22 18:04 Subject: RE: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects Message-ID: <75B8C0BEE0AE2A44AA971D218D9FE99E6B06F111@VMBX125.ihostexchange.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/75B8C0BEE0AE2A44AA971D218D9FE99E6B06F111%40VMBX125.ihostexchange.net In-Reply-To: <28c656e20912220054qc7b6497t79e135c913865c22@mail.gmail.com> ``` I've tried running 'git gc' (which should be pruning) and that hasn't helped. Is there an easy way to unpack the pack file and see what's inside (including sizes)? thanks, -Nick -----Original Message----- From: B Smith-Mannschott [mailto:bsmith.occs@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:55 AM To: Nick Triantos Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 17:34, Nick Triantos wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > Any ideas why the pack file is so huge?  Anything I can do to shrink it?  My coworkers are understandably unhappy that the repo is so huge now (makes for very slow pulls) Have you tried "git prune"? // Ben ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2009-12-22 18:11 Subject: Re: Huge pack file from small unpacked objects Message-ID: <7veimm3mm4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7veimm3mm4.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: <75B8C0BEE0AE2A44AA971D218D9FE99E6B06F111@VMBX125.ihostexchange.net> ``` Nick Triantos writes: > Is there an easy way to unpack the pack file and see what's inside (including sizes)? Unpack? (mkdir /var/tmp/junk && cd /var/tmp/junk && git init && git unpack-objects) <.git/objects/pack/pack-$that_one.pack It might also be interesting to see git verify-pack -v .git/objects/pack/pack-$that_one.pack ```