Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-sizer: compute various size-related metrics for your Git repository

2018-03-21 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi Michael, On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Michael Haggerty wrote: > What makes a Git repository unwieldy to work with and host? It turns > out that the respository's on-disk size in gigabytes is only part of > the story. From our experience at GitHub, repositories cause problems > because of poor

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-sizer: compute various size-related metrics for your Git repository

2018-03-18 Thread Michael Haggerty
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 09:01:42PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> One thing that can make repositories very pathological is if the ratio >> of trees to commits is too low. >> >> I was dealing with a repo the other day

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-sizer: compute various size-related metrics for your Git repository

2018-03-16 Thread Jeff King
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 09:01:42PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Suggestion for a thing to add to it, I don't have the time on the Go > tuits: > > One thing that can make repositories very pathological is if the ratio > of trees to commits is too low. > > I was dealing with a repo the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-sizer: compute various size-related metrics for your Git repository

2018-03-16 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, Mar 16 2018, Michael Haggerty jotted: > What makes a Git repository unwieldy to work with and host? It turns > out that the respository's on-disk size in gigabytes is only part of > the story. From our experience at GitHub, repositories cause problems > because of poor internal layout at

[ANNOUNCE] git-sizer: compute various size-related metrics for your Git repository

2018-03-16 Thread Michael Haggerty
What makes a Git repository unwieldy to work with and host? It turns out that the respository's on-disk size in gigabytes is only part of the story. From our experience at GitHub, repositories cause problems because of poor internal layout at least as often as because of their overall size. For