On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 01:43 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > OK, so I've tried --aggressive too now, and wow does it make a big > difference.
AIUI amongst other things --aggressive forces a full repack of the repo, which optimises the delta compression in the pack files. You could probably achieve most of the effect with `git repack`. It's probably diminishing returns at this point but there are options there to make it spend (lots) more time/memory to make things even smaller. > I've tried using it on the d-i.git and d-i-manual.git > repos and the difference is *huge*: > > # test2, previous results: > $ du -s test* > 613888 test1-bare.git > 3653432 test2-bare.git > 714336 test2-manual-bare.git That's much better ;-) Ian.