On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:04:26AM +0100, Petr Rockai wrote: > [email protected] (Trent W. Buck) writes: > > So my next question is: why does this particular process generate a > > *gigabyte* of unnecessary inventories, and why didn't "darcs optimize" > > clean them up? > That might be because of optimise's cautiousness to not remove files that > might > be referenced by existing copies of the repo. Can you count the tags in the > repository maybe?
There are no tags in the repository. An important datapoint that might not be clear is that there are five thousand patches, and all of these patches were recorded in that repo -- essentially recoreded as quickly as the disk I/O permits. > [...] after every patch, a new file in inventories is created, which > is a little suspicious... $ darcs changes --count 5420 $ ls _darcs/inventories/ | wc -l 5420 That's the problem, alright. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
