On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 17:47:41 +0800, 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?

It's 1.9GB here, after a long time of frequent syncing and no cleaning up.
Do you have distfiles or packages in there?

You can simply delete the portage directory and sync again.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Everything else being equal, fat people use more soap.

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