It's not immediately obvious why --disk-usage might be a useful thing. These examples show off a few of the real-world cases I've used it for. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-rev-list.txt | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt index d7ff519b90..20bb8e8217 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rev-list.txt @@ -83,6 +83,47 @@ git rev-list --author=you@xxxxxxxxxxx --since=1.year.ago --all git rev-list --objects HEAD ---------- +* Compare the disk size of all reachable objects, versus those + reachable from reflogs, versus the total packed size. This can tell + you whether running `git repack -ad` might reduce the repository size + (by dropping unreachable objects), and whether expiring reflogs might + help. ++ +---------- +# reachable objects +git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --all +# plus reflogs +git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --all --reflog +# total disk size used +du -c .git/objects/pack/*.pack .git/objects/??/* +# alternative to du: add up "size" and "size-pack" fields +git count-objects -v +---------- + +* Report the disk size of each branch, not including objects used by the + current branch. This can find outliers that are contributing to a + bloated repository size (e.g., because somebody accidentally committed + large build artifacts). ++ +---------- +git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' | +while read branch +do + size=$(git rev-list --disk-usage --objects HEAD..$branch) + echo "$size $branch" +done | +sort -n +---------- + +* Compare the on-disk size of branches in one group of refs, excluding + another. If you co-mingle objects from multiple remotes in a single + repository, this can show which remotes are contributing to the + repository size (taking the size of `origin` as a baseline). ++ +---------- +git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --remotes=$suspect --not --remotes=origin +---------- + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite -- 2.30.1.989.g5e01c2f281
