On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 06:57:58PM +0100, Thijs Alkemade wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:23:41PM -0500, Jon Chambers wrote: > > I'm not asserting that other systems don't have helpful features, but > > I think Github's pull requests are a really nice tool. They make it > > easy for outside developers to submit patches and do a really nice job > > of facilitating conversations about code changes. > > > > I recognize that changing version control systems and service > > providers and workflows are all Really Big Deals in their own right, > > and doing all of those at once is an Even Bigger Deal, but I (as an > > outside developer) do think it's a thing worth considering. > > > > -Jon > > > > We have an automatically synchronized Bitbucket mirror. Why do you prefer > Github's pull requests over Bitbucket's? > > I'm not against also running a Github mirror, there are tools that should > allow lossless conversion between the two. However, last time I tried those > (https://github.com/xnyhps/adium), the repository went from ~700 MB to > 2.5GB. Anyone who would want to use Github to quickly send a pull request to > Adium would probably give up trying to clone that. I could have a look at > what causes that enormous increase in size, but unless we decide to drop > a lot of history and create a new repository without binary frameworks it > will still end up quite large. > > Thijs
Okay, I took a closer look. * In the repository that ran the conversion, the .hg/git directory is 909MB. This is a fresh conversion, but might have included a couple of local commits I never pushed. It was a fresh conversion, as after I tried `git gc`, hg-git was unable to push to github. I guess it accidentally deleted something git considers garbage but hg-git doesn't. * https://github.com/settings/repositories shows it as: xnyhps/adium 2681.82MB * Cloning that resulted in a 648 MB directory (so working directory and .git). * `git gc --aggressive` brought that down to 386 MB. I don't really know what's going on with the size Github shows. I'd guess they run `git gc` at least once in a while. I'll try deleting the repository, and pushing a clone that was gc'ed locally first instead. Thijs
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