Re: [fossil-users] Why does the repo file grow over time?

2015-11-28 Thread tonyp
Funny thing is that for some repos, the file will shrink even further if you re-run the command a 2nd time. -Original Message- From: Richard Hipp Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 1:52 AM To: Fossil SCM user's discussion Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Why does the repo file grow over

Re: [fossil-users] Why does the repo file grow over time?

2015-11-27 Thread Richard Hipp
On 11/27/15, sky5w...@gmail.com wrote: > Nice, I just recovered 50% file size using: > fossil rebuild --compress-only > I had only ever used fossil rebuild and vacuum's? > Thanks for heads up. > Note that this works with the "all" command too: fossil all rebuild

Re: [fossil-users] Why does the repo file grow over time?

2015-11-27 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 27, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > On 11/27/15, Warren Young wrote: >> So, what did that fix actually do? What was taking up the extra space, >> which VACUUM did not find? > > The command does extra delta-compression. Would a correct tl;dl

Re: [fossil-users] Why does the repo file grow over time?

2015-11-27 Thread sky5walk
Nice, I just recovered 50% file size using: fossil rebuild --compress-only I had only ever used fossil rebuild and vacuum's? Thanks for heads up. On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Nov 27, 2015, at 3:06 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > >

Re: [fossil-users] Why does the repo file grow over time?

2015-11-27 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 27, 2015, at 3:06 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > On 11/27/15, Warren Young wrote: >> Why is my year-old clone so much larger than a fresh clone? >> >> And yes, I did re-VACUUM the repo file before posting. That did shrink it >> considerably, from about

Re: [fossil-users] Why does the repo file grow over time?

2015-11-27 Thread Richard Hipp
On 11/27/15, Warren Young wrote: > So, what did that fix actually do? What was taking up the extra space, > which VACUUM did not find? The command does extra delta-compression. Fossil does not store the complete text of every version of every file. Instead, it tries to store

Re: [fossil-users] Why does the repo file grow over time?

2015-11-27 Thread Richard Hipp
On 11/27/15, Warren Young wrote: > On Nov 27, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: >> >> On 11/27/15, Warren Young wrote: >>> So, what did that fix actually do? What was taking up the extra space, >>> which VACUUM did not find? >> >> The

Re: [fossil-users] Why does the repo file grow over time?

2015-11-27 Thread Andreas Kupries
> Another research problem: Current, Fossil only delta-compresses > versions of the same file. Enhance --compress so that it detects > different files that happen to share a lot of content and delta > encode them against one another. Idea for a multi-phase process to hopefully avoid the

Re: [fossil-users] Why does the repo file grow over time?

2015-11-27 Thread Richard Hipp
On 11/27/15, Warren Young wrote: > Obviously checking in new versions adds data to the repo file. > > My question is subtler than that. I noticed while participating in another > thread here that a fresh clone from http://fossil-scm.org gives a repo file > that’s about 36 MiB,

[fossil-users] Why does the repo file grow over time?

2015-11-27 Thread Warren Young
Obviously checking in new versions adds data to the repo file. My question is subtler than that. I noticed while participating in another thread here that a fresh clone from http://fossil-scm.org gives a repo file that’s about 36 MiB, but my preexisting clone of the repo is 65 MiB. Why is my