On Friday 09 October 2009 04:40:46 Jim Meyering wrote: > I noticed that gnulib.git was consuming nearly 700MB, so did this: > > $ du -sh .; git gc; du -sh . > 692M . > Counting objects: 78817, done. > Delta compression using up to 4 threads. > Compressing objects: 100% (19078/19078), done. > Writing objects: 100% (78817/78817), done. > Total 78817 (delta 63009), reused 74442 (delta 59695) > Removing duplicate objects: 100% (256/256), done. > 35M . > > That should help. > > I'm a little surprised my doing something like this manually > makes a difference. I thought it was supposed to happen automatically, > but haven't looked at that part of git in a long time. > Maybe a config setting? > > The server is currently running git-1.6.3.3
afaik, automatic garbage collection is only run on the client repo. server admin is responsible for housekeeping the remote copy (since there are some subtle side effects -- new packs are created and old objs are deleted). -mike
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