On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 05:34:43PM -0600, Graham Booker wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Thijs Alkemade <m...@thijsalkema.de> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > You may want to run the repack with the appropriate options instead of gc > --aggressive: > http://metalinguist.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/the-woes-of-git-gc-aggressive-and-how-git-deltas-work/ > > Since this is a one-time operation, you should run the repack with the -f. > I've played with this on repositories converted from SVN, and I found that > repack tends to do better than gc --aggressive in terms of repository size. >
Thanks, I tried this overnight, with the following results: * A local clone of the .hg/git directory was 1GB (probably due to now having checked out files too). * Running `git repack -f -a -d --depth=250 --window=250` brought it back to 395MB. * I just pushed it to a fresh repository on Github, which shows it as 261MB. (But it appears to me not all bookmarks/branches were pushed, I only see master). It's at https://github.com/xnyhps/adium. The other one was moved to https://github.com/xnyhps/adium-bad. This is looking quite promising, thanks. :) Thijs
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