Hi, just to test the packing improvements we had achieved over the last year, I have repacked the historical kernel repository and achieved a significant improvement: xpasky@machine[0:0]~/hi/history$ git-repack -a -f Generating pack... Done counting 566638 objects. Deltifying 566638 objects. 100% (566638/566638) done Writing 566638 objects. 100% (566638/566638) done Total 566638, written 566638 (delta 456212), reused 98435 (delta 0) Pack pack-4d27038611fe7755938efd4a2745d5d5d35de1c1 created. xpasky@machine[0:0]~/hi/history$ l .git/objects/pack/ total 476264 -rw-r--r-- 1 xpasky users 13600376 Sep 14 16:18 pack-4d27038611fe7755938efd4a2745d5d5d35de1c1.idx -rw-r--r-- 1 xpasky users 197168186 Sep 14 16:18 pack-4d27038611fe7755938efd4a2745d5d5d35de1c1.pack -rw-r--r-- 1 xpasky users 13600376 Sep 14 12:18 pack-cc3517351ecce3ef7ba010559992bdfc10b7acd4.idx -rw-r--r-- 1 xpasky users 262818936 Sep 14 12:29 pack-cc3517351ecce3ef7ba010559992bdfc10b7acd4.pack Since it's a nice place for people to check about how efficient we are with compressing the repository, perhaps it would be a good idea to repack the historical repository on kernel.org? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Snow falling on Perl. White noise covering line noise. Hides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam - 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