On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:25:28PM +0200, Petko Manolov wrote: >> Right, as loose objects. Did you try running "git-gc" to repack? > > I did "git repack -f -a -d", but it didn't reduce the repository size. > Those binaries are already compressed so any change adds up their size > once again. OK, that was the answer I was looking for; it looks like you are out of luck. BTW, the main space-saver in repacking is _not_ compression, but rather finding deltas between similar objects (e.g., two versions of the same file that, although large, differ only by a small amount). So even compressed files can still produce space savings during a repack, though perhaps not as well because of randomness introduced by the compression. As an experiment, it might be worth trying to store the uncompressed versions instead (git will delta _and_ compress them for you). -Peff - 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
