Of course with short history ~/test/bar$ ll -ah && git gc total 20K drwxr-xr-x 3 yinping yinping 4.0K 2008-01-19 17:44 . drwxr-xr-x 8 yinping yinping 4.0K 2008-01-19 17:36 .. drwxr-xr-x 8 yinping yinping 4.0K 2008-01-19 17:44 .git -rw-r--r-- 1 yinping yinping 26 2008-01-19 17:33 .gitignore -rwxr-xr-x 1 yinping yinping 131 2008-01-19 17:44 Makefile.common Counting objects: 87, done. Compressing objects: 100% (78/78), done. Writing objects: 100% (87/87), done. Total 87 (delta 8), reused 87 (delta 8) ~/test/bar$ git log --pretty=oneline 4046b84344038d63b655b56f6e619888dd424e4e Add Makefile.common using commonmake 8bbd7d4649ac1df1b29414b2ec469f532a77f222 Init empty repository, ignore *.o, *.d, *~, *.swp, CVS, .svn ~/test/bar$ du -h . | tail -10 8.0K ./.git/objects/info 2.5M ./.git/objects/pack 2.5M ./.git/objects 8.0K ./.git/logs/refs/heads 20K ./.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin 24K ./.git/logs/refs/remotes 36K ./.git/logs/refs 44K ./.git/logs 2.7M ./.git 2.7M . On Jan 19, 2008 5:43 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > $ ~/test/bar$ ll -h && git gc > total 8.0K > -rwxr-xr-x 1 yinping yinping 131 2008-01-19 17:35 Makefile.crawler > -rwxr-xr-x 1 yinping yinping 131 2008-01-19 17:37 Makefile.search > Counting objects: 87, done. > Compressing objects: 100% (78/78), done. > Writing objects: 100% (87/87), done. > Total 87 (delta 8), reused 87 (delta 8) > > $ ~/test/bar$ du -h . | tail -10 > 8.0K ./.git/objects/info > 2.5M ./.git/objects/pack > 2.5M ./.git/objects > 8.0K ./.git/logs/refs/heads > 20K ./.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin > 24K ./.git/logs/refs/remotes > 36K ./.git/logs/refs > 44K ./.git/logs > 2.7M ./.git > 2.7M . > > -- > Ping Yin > -- Ping Yin - 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