On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 02:08:58AM -0700, Bryan Turner wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 1:56 AM Uwe Kleine-König > <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I wonder if I do something wrong, or if I just don't understand > > something: > > > > ukl@dude04:~/work$ git version > > git version 2.30.2 > > > > ukl@dude04:~/work$ git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git > > ... > > ukl@dude04:~/work$ cd linux/ > > ukl@dude04:~/work/linux$ du -sh .git/objects > > 2.6G .git/objects > > ukl@dude04:~/work/linux$ echo "/ptx/work/user/git/linux.git/objects" > .git/objects/info/alternates > > > > ukl@dude04:~/work/linux$ git repack -A -d > > ... > > ukl@dude04:~/work/linux$ du -sh .git/objects/ > > 2.6G .git/objects/ > > > > I would have expected a drastic size decrease from git repack after the > > alternate is added. > > You're missing -l on your repack command. See git help pack-objects > and look for --local. Without -l, repack includes copies of the > objects you're borrowing, so your pack size doesn't change. > > Hope this helps! It does. When adding -l the size reported by du goes down to 8K. Thanks a lot. While refering to other manpages is easy to maintain, it's hard to read for a user. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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