From: "Daniel Berlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:08:41 -0500
> So I tried a full history conversion using git-svn of the gcc > repository (IE every trunk revision from 1-HEAD as of yesterday) > The git-svn import was done using repacks every 1000 revisions. > After it finished, I used git-gc --aggressive --prune. Two hours > later, it finished. > The final size after this is 1.5 gig for all of the history of gcc for > just trunk. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/compilerstuff/gitgcc/gccrepo/.git/objects/pack$ ls -trl > total 1568899 > -r--r--r-- 1 dberlin dberlin 1585972834 2007-12-05 14:01 > pack-cd328fcf0bd673d8f2f72c42fbe67da64cbcd218.pack > -r--r--r-- 1 dberlin dberlin 19008488 2007-12-05 14:01 > pack-cd328fcf0bd673d8f2f72c42fbe67da64cbcd218.idx > > This is 3x bigger than hg *and* hg doesn't require me to waste my life > repacking every so often. > The hg operations run roughly as fast as the git ones > > I'm sure there are magic options, magic command lines, etc, i could > use to make it smaller. > > I'm sure if i spent the next few weeks fucking around with git, it may > even be usable! > > But given that git is harder to use, requires manual repacking to get > any kind of sane space usage, and is 3x bigger anyway, i don't see any > advantage to continuing to experiment with git and gcc. I would really appreciate it if you would share experiences like this with the GIT community, who have been now CC:'d. That's the only way this situation is going to improve. When you don't CC: the people who can fix the problem, I can only speculate that perhaps at least subconsciously you don't care if the situation improves or not. The OpenSolaris folks behaved similarly, and that really ticked me off.
