Hi again. On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 06:09 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:29:35PM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi again. > > > > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 21:17 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 08:49 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > >> The two things git users can do to help is: > > > >> > > > >> 1. Make sure your alternatives file is set up correctly; > > > >> 2. Keep your trees packed and pruned, to keep the file count down. > > > >> > > > >> If you do this, the load imposed by a single git tree is fairly > > > >> negible. > > > > > > > > Sorry for the slow reply, and the ignorance... what's an alternatives > > > > file? I've never heard of them before. > > > > > > > > > > Just a minor correction; it's the "alternates" file > > > (objects/info/alternates). > > > > I went looking for documentation on how to use the alternates feature, > > and found an email from September 2005 > > (http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.1/2860.html) that > > says: > > > > <quote> > > /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/$u/$tree > > > > Of course, you may have more than one such $tree. The > > suggestion by Linus was to do (please do not do this yet -- that > > is what this message is about): > > > > $ cd /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/$u/$tree > > $ cat /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6/objects \ > > >objects/info/alternates > > $ GIT_DIR=. git prune > > </quote> > > > > Are these instructions still correct in the case of master.kernel.org? > > It works for me (instead of "git prune" I was using > "git-repack -a -d -l -f").
There's a typo in the above commands. It should be echo instead of cat. In addition, just typing "git prune" didn't save much. When I did git-prune -a -l -d, however, all of my trees shrunk to just a couple of megs (just my deltas, I assume). Maybe this will be helpful to someone else. Regards, Nigel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
