Re: git mirror

[Philippe Roussel]

Le 15/02/2012 23:05, Lucas Schnorr a écrit :
> Hi again,
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 23:01, Philippe Roussel<p.o.roussel@free.fr>  wrote:
> > > Just to try, I have cloned the gna svn repository using git-svn [1].
> > > After almost 24 hours running, it has 4.7 gigabytes, but it contains
> > > the whole commit history in my machine. I was thinking to push to
> > > github to see how it goes, but they limit the size of repositories to
> > > 100 megabytes as far as I remember.
> >
> > Ok, I'm out ! I thought it would take an order of magnitude less. I stand
> > corrected.
>
> Not really. I cloned it again locally but now towards a bare
> repository (a bare repository contains only the history, without the
> checkout of a revision). Amazing as it seems, the whole Gnustep
> history is then compressed to ~120 megabytes. First revision dates
> back to 1994. Newest one is from yesterday.

Ok, I'm in again, thanks !

> The 4.7 gigabytes contains the Gnustep history plus the checkout of
> one of the revisions, in this case the one from February 14th.

There's something fishy here. How can you go from 120 Mo to 4.7 Go with 
just a checkout ? My full gnustep checkout (not even distclean'ed) use 
851 Mo. After some cleaning it's down to 592 Mo.

Philippe