On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 14:26 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 2/8/08, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Jan Holesovsky <kendy@xxxxxxx> writes: > > One of the reasons why 'lazy clone' was not implemented was the fact > > that by using large enough window, and larger than default delta > > length you can repack "archive pack" (and keep it from trying to > > repack using .keep files, see git-config(1)) much tighter than with > > default (time and CPU conserving) options, and much, much tighter than > > pack which is result of fast-import driven import. > > > > Both Mozilla import, and GCC import were packed below 0.5 GB. Warning: > > you would need machine with large amount of memory to repack it > > tightly in sensible time! > > A lot of memory is 2-4GB. Without this much memory you will trigger > swapping and the pack process will finish in about a month. Well, my modest little Celeron M laptop w/ 1GB of ram did the full repack overnight on the gcc repo, so a month is a bit of an exaggeration. Cheers, Harvey - 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
