On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 23:44 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Yuan Yijun wrote: > > I just tried to download revisor git with this command "git pull > > http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/revisor master". I have to repeat > > 4-5 times since it breaks during downloading. The .git folder is > > about 58MB. After "git gc --aggressive" it becomes only 6MB. > > > > Anyone please run gc on server? > > Perhaps better would be repack. There was a recent thread on the git > list and one of the developers pointed out an older mail from Linus > where he described gc --aggressive as "mostly dumb" and recommended > that using something like "repack -a -d -f --depth=250 --window=250" > instead. > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/94613 That's actually a very useful article and the methods/reasons behind it sound quite sane and it could be a useful approach for us. I'll try this out on one of the smaller repos (a copy of course) and see what happens. (n.b. I've added f-infrastructure-list to CC's, that's where everyone that manages the hosted server reads :).) - Nigel > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
