Re: git-fast-export hg mutt (24M vs 184M)

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On Fri, 4 May 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:18:24PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 09:17:16PM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > git-repack -a -d -f got it down to 19M. I missed the -f parameter
> > > > before. Sorry for the noise.
> > > 
> > >   You may want to use git gc that does that (and a bit more) for you.
> > 
> > Actually, in this case, no.
> > 
> > git-gc by default doesn't use the -f option.  -f to git-repack
> > means "no reuse deltas".  That particular feature of git-repack is
> > basically required to be used after running git-fast-import with
> > anything sizeable.
> 
>   okay, so why git fast-import does not let some note somewhere (to be
> picked by git gc later) "a fast-import has been run, use -f for next
> repack if you want best compression" ?

Nah.

The conversion script should do it itself directly after it is done with 
fast-import.


Nicolas
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