Hi again, On 20.09.20 17:39, Steffen Möller wrote: > Hi Étienne, > > On 20.09.20 11:09, Étienne Mollier wrote: >> Hi Steffen, >> >> Steffen Möller, on 2020-09-20 04:02:39 +0200: >>> Hello, the git archive occupies 421M on my disk, the tarball is 68MB, >>> the package only 29MB, which I think is worth it. We have the human >>> already in the archive, I would like the others to follow - which means >>> rat, fly and worm to me. >>> >>> I presume that git tries to make sense of the sqlite database and this >>> is why this bloats. Or is it just past version? Anyone with ideas how to >>> reduce the impact on salsa? >> I think `git lfs`, from the package "git-lfs", might help reduce >> the size of large data oriented repositories. I have been >> skimming through Salsa and Gitlab documentation, and I believe >> this should be supported by Salsa as well. Salsa is said to >> have all the features of Gitlab, and Gitlab advertises git lfs >> support: >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa >> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/git/lfs/index.html >> >> However, I never have had the occasion to use git lfs yet. I >> only heard about it first during the presentation on "datalad". >> But it sounds like it might be worth a try. > I used it once and it works. Following your pointers I seem to lack the > tools in Debian to support the transition to a git lfs repository, i.e. > there are no https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ tools and also > the git filter-repo is not available. > > git lfs installation and tracking works like a charm, though.
From what I understand, the lfs helps those who check the files out because of a smaller history, but the server side (salsa) does not benefit, right? Maybe we should then just leave it for now. Best, Steffen
