On Saturday, 4 December 2021 09:47:41 GMT William Kenworthy wrote: > are there any settings useful to reduce the size of a git sync'd > portage? Its just hit 22Gb and the little arm system I use to maintain it > is choking. I am doing a git clean -f and git gc --aggressive in the hope > it reduces it some, but from reading I believe the real problem is years of > history logs. Is there a way of a) setting depth=1 for portage and b) > cleaning out the existing history? -- or something better?
You could do what I'm having to do at the moment, and delete /var/db/repos/ gentoo before syncing; also setting clone-depth = 1 in /etc/portage/ repos.conf/gentoo.conf. -- Regards, Peter.
