On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > It will take a while. My .git directory is 7G, and I'd like to do a > > > backup before playing with git. > > > > Ouch, what have you done? It should be about 200MB, not 7GB. > > And 10 minutes later, .git directory is 200MB. Thanks! It strikes me that the only way I can think of that you could have gotten a 7GB .git directory without really working at it is if you use one of the so-called "dumb" git protocols that just copy whole packfiles from kernel.org when you pull. So do you happen to perhaps use http:// or rsync:// when you fetch git data? That would not only be horribly slow occasionally (you'd fetch all-new packs and re-download about 200MB of data when I repack the kernel repo on kernel.org, which happens about once or twice every release cycle), but it would also explain how it ballooned to 7GB for you (because you have all these duplicate packs!). Usign the native git:// protocol would be much faster and avoid the issue in the future. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
