Re: FYI, emacs.git repo size: now 155M, was 1.1G

[David Reitter]

On Oct 9, 2009, at 4:31 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Note that if your own emacs/.git/ directory is larger than say 200M,
> you too can save some space by running "git gc".

Wouldn't it do that automatically once a month?

The other space-saving function is "git-new-workdir".  I think it's  
"contrib" rather than installed by default, but it's a life-saver when  
"git checkout" takes a bit too long (it takes maybe 5 seconds for me  
to switch to another branch with my Emacs repository).  It creates a  
separate directory with just a different branch, while sharing the a  
central (yet local) repository.  Kind of like how Bazaar does it.   
This saves a lot of space - and time: it's a excellent solution when  
re-building takes a long time after switching branches.