On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Jon Nelson wrote: > Last night, the repo size was 153G after removing some commits and > objects by way of git filter-branch. > I'm using "du -sh" in the .git directory to determine the disk usage. > > Before: 136G > git repack -dAl > After: 153G Why are you using -A instead of -a ? > Then, just to make sure of some things, I changed nothing and simply > re-ran "git repack -dAl". > After: 167G Could you run 'git count-objects -v' before and after a repack in such cases as well? > [pack] > packsizelimit = 256m Why are you using this? > pack.packsizelimit=2M This is even worse. 150G / 2M per pack = approx 75000 packs. What you should be aiming for is a _single_ pack for best performances. A couple packs is common and doesn't make much of a difference. A hundred packs is getting a bit large. But 75000 packs is totally insane. Nicolas -- 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