Package: etckeeper Version: 0.15 Severity: wishlist After running etckeeper for a few months, I noticed that /etc/.git constituted four fifths of my /etc tree. Running git-gc significantly improved this ratio. I wish etckeeper did this automatically via a cron.monthly or cron.weekly script.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo du -sh . .git 45M . 40M .git [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo git gc Counting objects: 5722, done. Compressing objects: 100% (4928/4928), done. Writing objects: 100% (5722/5722), done. Total 5722 (delta 2681), reused 0 (delta 0) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo du -sh . .git 13M . 7.4M .git Pieter de Bie on Freenode's #git also suggested this. I have no idea if it's a good idea to automate. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo git repack -adf --window=200 Counting objects: 5722, done. Compressing objects: 100% (4928/4928), done. Writing objects: 100% (5722/5722), done. Total 5722 (delta 2795), reused 0 (delta 0) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo du -sh . .git 13M . 6.9M .git -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages etckeeper depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy ii git-core 1:1.5.5.1-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi ii mercurial 1.0-4 Scalable distributed version contr etckeeper recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * etckeeper/unclean: true etckeeper/commit_failed: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
