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
