On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:47:11AM -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > >On Thu, 2007-05-31 21:34:33 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > >>I've set up a Git mirror of the entire GCC history on > >>server space kindly provided by David Woodhouse. > >> > >>You can clone it with: > >> > >>git-clone git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git > > > >How often will it be synced with upstream SVN? > > I've setup a cron job every hour, but I can increase the > frequency if needed. git-svn is not a cpu/bandwidth hog. > > >While you're at it, > >would David mind to also place a binutils, glibc and glibc-ports GIT > >repo next to it? That way, there would be a nice single point of GIT > >repos for the whole toolchain. > > For this, I'd prefer waiting for David's answer. David, > my guess is that all of these combined should be smaller > than GCC alone. There should be fewer users, too. > > > >Thanks for the work, I'll just clone it right now :) > > Be our guest, and let me know if you find a way to > repack the repo to a smaller size.
I just upgraded my git to 1.5.2 and repacked the git repository with git-gc --aggressive. It is quite impressive: the size of the pack file was almost cut in half, from ~23MB to ~12MB! Gabriel