Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > This is a first in my series of mails over the next few days, on issues > that we've run into planning a potential migration for Gentoo's > repository into Git. > > Our full repository conversion is large, even after tuning the > repacking, the packed repository is between 1.4 and 1.6GiB. As of Feburary > 4th, 2009, it contained 4886949 objects. It is not suitable for > splitting into submodules either unfortunately - we have a lot of > directory moves that would cause submodule bloat. > > During an initial clone, I see that git-upload-pack invokes > pack-objects, despite the ENTIRE repository already being packed - no > loose objects whatsoever. git-upload-pack then seems to buffer in > memory. > Have you considered using a bundle as part of the initial clone process? The idea would be to periodically create a bundle git bundle create <somename>.bundle [list of refs] and publish that on your website. A new user would then do wget $uri-of-bundle git clone <somename>.bundle cd $somename git remote add origin $origin git fetch and they have the current repo. As the bundle is a file, it can be distributed by torrent or other method. The expense of creating the pack in the bundle is paid exactly once when the bundle is created. Mark -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html