On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 03:25:35PM +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > On Friday 08 February 2008 19:03, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > I've provided a git import of OOo with the entire history; the problem is > > > that the pack has 2.5G, so it's not too convenient to download for casual > > > developers that just want to try it. > > > > How did you repack your repository? > > > > We know that current defaults are not suitable for large projects. For > > example, the gcc git repository shrinked from 1.5GB pack down to 230MB > > after some tuning. > > After the suggestions in this thread I tried to experiment with the --window > and --depth options of git-repack, and indeed, there are still reserves. > > So far I'm at 2G (saved 500M), unfortunately the aggressive values like > --window=250 --depth=250 that someone mentioned here cause out-of-memory on a > machine with 8G :-(. If there's anybody brave enough here to try as well, I'd > be grateful. Maybe it would be also interesting to _exactly_ locate what > causes the oom, and eg. exclude the object from the pack if possible. Speaking of which, I haven't taken a look at builtin-pack-objects.c deep enough but shouldn't it be possible to do prepare_pack and write_pack_file in one pass ? Mike - 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
