Linus Torvalds wrote: >> wilber:~/src/perl-preview$ du -sk .git >> 73274 .git >> wilber:~/src/perl-preview$ git-repack -a >> Counting objects: 244360, done. >> Compressing objects: 100% (55493/55493), done. >> Writing objects: 100% (244360/244360), done. >> Total 244360 (delta 181061), reused 244360 (delta 181061) >> wilber:~/src/perl-preview$ du -sk .git/objects/pack/ >> 75389 .git/objects/pack/ > > Hmm. I'm not sure I understand what this was supposed to show? > > You reused all the old deltas, and you did "du -sk" on two different > things before/after (and didn't do a "-a -d" to repack the old pack > either). So does the result actually have anything to do with any > compression algorithm? > > Use "-a -d -f" to repack a whole archive. Drat, guess that means I'll have to recompute the deltas - I was trying to avoid that. Ok, see you in an hour or two, hopefully sans bonehead mistakes this time :) Sam. - 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
