Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> And currently the git history is still almost empty... >> > > If you want pre-migration history you need to fetch that separately.
How? Neither on gitweb.gentoo.org nor on github I found an obvious repository with this data. > It is about 1.7G. > Considering that this represents a LOT more than 2-3 years of history If the 1.7G are fully compressed history, this would confirm my estimate rather precisely, if it represents (1700/120 - 1) ~ 13 years. Gentoo exists since 2002, so it seems my estimate was very good. > (including periods where the commit rate was higher than it is today) One of my assumptions for the estimate was that this rate is constant in the average. Also I am not sure whether you right that this rate was really higher, previously: Nowadays, even a rather trivial eclass-update is separated into several commits, increasing the amount of data needed for storage. > I think your estimates of where the migrated repo will be in 2-3 years > is too high. Note that I compared squashfs with a git user who does not even care about git-internal recompression. Of course, you can decrease the factor somewhat if e.g. your checked-out tree is still stored on squashfs. This does not change the fact that the factor will increase every year by about 1 (or probably more, because git uses the uneffective gzip compression, only).
