On 18.03.2011 17:50, HB-GRAL wrote: > Today I checked the current fgdata/Aircraft folder for sizes. It’s about > 4,3 GB here. Nice. > > Some of this files are .gz already, when I .gz the rest I get another > 100 MB, or in other words I get two MiG-15 or another p51d.
Nice statistics! Maybe this motivates some of us to be a bit more considerate before committing something to the repo. However, remember that dropping any file from the repository wouldn't help at all now: a git repository never shrinks - it can only grow... It's an especially bad idea to drop files and resubmit a smaller/compressed version in a futile attempt to shrink the repository. git contains a complete history of every file. If you dropped files and resubmitted a smaller version, the local fgdata directories may at first appear smaller - but if you checked the total size (that is including the hidden ".git" folders) you'll see that the total size was actually increased... And another warning: the complete history issue also affects personal git branches on gitorious. So, if an a/c designer adds 19 versions of an image file to his private branch and then placed a "merge request" to fgdata/master - then the merge will actually copy the history of all 19 file versions to the master branch - even the history of files which were already dropped on the private branch. So, in such cases it's a good idea to not actually "git merge" the complete personal branch to our "master" - but to simply take a copy of the latest version of the a/c files and to submit them to "master" using a fresh commit (I think that's what our fgdata-merge-committers do anyway - at least I hope so...). Or maybe any git expert knew if there was a git-merge-without-history command? Indeed, fgdata/master is becoming way too big though. But we can only solve this by splitting our current repository - and then push the different parts to fresh git repositories. Splitting fgdata was planned anyway. The new "--fg-aircraft" options was the first step to make this possible. I'm just not sure what the status of splitting fgdata is though... cheers, Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
