Hi DV,
I ran this on a fresh clone of libvirt:
$ du -sh .git; git gc --aggressive; du -sh .git
54M .git
...
45M .git
I propose to do the same thing on the server, libvirt.org.
It's not a big deal, but decreased bandwidth wouldn't hurt,
and the slightly smaller on-disk repository makes even local
git tools feel a little snappier. It's worth doing for all git
repositories.
As far as I know, no one stores anything useful as "unlinked" commits
on the server (they would be removed by the above), so there is no
down-side to doing this. In fact, "man git-gc" recommends to run
git gc --aggressive "every few hundred changesets or so".
Adding a cron job to do it every few weeks would be nice (e.g., Sunday
at 4am local). Let me know and I'll do it via my account.
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