On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 21:23 +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Daniel> So I tried a full history conversion using git-svn of the gcc > Daniel> repository (IE every trunk revision from 1-HEAD as of > Daniel> yesterday) The git-svn import was done using repacks every > Daniel> 1000 revisions. After it finished, I used git-gc --aggressive > Daniel> --prune. Two hours later, it finished. The final size after > Daniel> this is 1.5 gig for all of the history of gcc for just trunk. > > Most of the space is probably taken by the SVN specific data. To get > an idea of how GIT would handle GCC data, you should clone the GIT > directory or checkout one from infradead.org: > > % git clone git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git >
Actually I went through and created the basis for that repo. It contains all branches and tags in the gcc svn repo and the final pack comes to about 600M. This has _everything_, not just trunk. For the first time after doing such an import, I found it much better to do git repack -a -f --depth=100 --window=100. After that initial repack a plain git-gc occasionally will be just fine. If you want any more information about this, let me know. CHeers, Harvey
