Re: [git-users] Strange effect when tar-ing a cloned repository
Hi Martin, Thanks, but my problem is not the difference between the size of the source in the git-repository and the tar-file made from the same source. Obviously tther will be differences depending on the compressing-algorithm used by tar and git. My problem is the difference between 2 tar-files. One made from the source before committing and pushing, and the second tar, made from the same source after cloneing and checking-out. I would expect them to be the same size (apart from small differences due to .gitignore etc). But an 20% increase is too much ! Regards, Peter Op maandag 19 augustus 2013 22:59:24 UTC+2 schreef Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen: On 19 August 2013 21:10, peter boudewijns ing...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hi All, [...] When making a compressed tarball from the files from the repository (after clone/checkout) I get a very much larger tar.gz-file. Size goes up from 16M to 21M (!?) Not so strange. git is very good at compressing. One my of bare git repository is 32M but a tar.gz file of all files excluding the .git directory is 92M. /Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [git-users] Strange effect when tar-ing a cloned repository
Hi Philip, Tnx for your tip. But I made 100% sure NOT to include the .git directory. And still I get a the difference between 2 tar-files. One made from the source before committing and pushing, and the second tar, made from the same source after cloneing and checking-out. I would expect them to be the same size (apart from small differences due to .gitignore etc). But an 20% increase is too much ! Regards, Peter Op maandag 19 augustus 2013 21:47:15 UTC+2 schreef Philip Oakley: - Original Message - *From:* peter boudewijns javascript: *To:* git-...@googlegroups.com javascript: *Sent:* Monday, August 19, 2013 8:10 PM *Subject:* [git-users] Strange effect when tar-ing a cloned repository Hi All, I've been trying to put my filesystem for a very small busybox-based distro into a git-repository. And with succes. The only strange thing I can not get my head around is the following : When making a compressed tarball from the files from the repository (after clone/checkout) I get a very much larger tar.gz-file. Size goes up from 16M to 21M (!?) Has anyone got a clue ? Thanks PeTer The usual reason is that you 'forgot' that the git repo itself is inside the hidden directory .git at the top level. So you have both your working tree of regular files, and then you have the hidden repo storage - so you have everything twice, and the history as well! Have a look at the 'git archive' command if you want just your your work tree, without the whole repo history. Philip -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [git-users] Strange effect when tar-ing a cloned repository
did you already try a cleanup? git gc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [git-users] Strange effect when tar-ing a cloned repository
Hi tombert, No, not yet. At this moment I'm busy makeing a detailed list from all file- directory-sizes before and after git-commit/git-checkout. Thereafter I'll surely try 'git gc' ! Regards, Peter Op dinsdag 20 augustus 2013 09:28:23 UTC+2 schreef tombert: did you already try a cleanup? git gc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [git-users] Strange effect when tar-ing a cloned repository
Hi Dale, I've been running some tests to see if I could find the origin of my size-difference. As it turned out, when examining the filesystem's size on the target with 'su', this was about 10M bigger in case of the git-cloned filesystem (I make a jffs2-file to flash the target, thereafter examine the target via a tty). The entire difference could be pinned down in just 1 directory, 'sbin'. So, I made complete listings (ls) from /sbin, both the original as the git-cloned version. And they are exactly the same !? But with su -hs the /sbin directory yields the 10M difference .. ? I do not know enough about the way Linux writes its files, and how it determines the size of the files. But it seems to me the git-cloned files contain empty space that occupies filesystem-space, but is not counted when calculating the actual filesize . Both versions function 100% on the target, so why worry ? But I still would like to know whats going on And yes, I also used git gc (--aggressive), but this yields no improvement at the client side upon cloneing/checking out. To be continued Regards, Peter My guess is that the cloned repository isn't compressed in exactly the same way as the original repository. The first step would be to find out the amount of disk space occupied by the original and the cloned repositories (using du -s) rather than depending on the size of the .tar files. If you want the repository to be small, look into git gc --aggressive. Dale Dale Worley -- Today is: 12.19.16.17.0 9 Ahaw 18 Mak Only 1100 more shopping days until the end of the World. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[git-users] Missing libcurl-4 win7 x64
The latest windows install (1.8.3.msysgit.0) gives me an error about libcurl-4.dll missing any time I try to push to a local git server(omv). Copying and renaming libcurl.dll to libcurl-4.dll seems to fix the problem, although I have some reservations about this. Even at this, using the git gui gives me an error, it only works using the command line, although this could be a separate issue. I would like to submit this is as a bug, but don't want to subscribe to the main mailing list. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [git-users] Strange effect when tar-ing a cloned repository
Hi Dale, Thanks for the explanation and tips. I'm gonna study the articles this evening. So perhaps I can find the conclusive answer to my 'problem'. Kindest regards, Peter Here's one explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_files#Sparse_files_in_Unix Also, read the du and cp manual pages, looking for the words holes and sparse, to see situations where this matters. Dale -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[git-users] Keeping local config files
Hey all, Very new to git so please be gentle. I have a repository on a server which is running along nicely. It houses a php project for reference. When I set up a local version I need to be able to keep certain files separate. My first thought is that I have a config file. In which is the root domain that the app is running from. On my live server this is something like dev.smiley.com but it needs to be localhost/dev on my local machine. How would I go about configuring this? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [git-users] Keeping local config files
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Smiley lyley...@gmail.com wrote: I have a repository on a server which is running along nicely. It houses a php project for reference. When I set up a local version I need to be able to keep certain files separate. My first thought is that I have a config file. In which is the root domain that the app is running from. On my live server this is something like dev.smiley.com but it needs to be localhost/dev on my local machine. How would I go about configuring this? The usual solution is to not keep configuration files in the repository at all but rather keep there their templates (like, say, config.php.template instead of config.php). Then at each deployment point -- your testing server being one of them and your workplace being another -- copy the templates to real configuration files and edit appropriately. You could possibly make this soultion a bit less tedious if your configuration files could be split into common (and less frequently changing) parts and site-specific parts -- you could then keep such common files in the repository and do something like require_once(site-local.php); in them, keeping *no* site-local.php in the repository but rather maintaining it as an untracked file at each site. Another possible approach is to use the so-called smudge/clean filters which re-write specific files upon checkout and commit but these are, IMO, are far more complicated to setup and maintain and appear to be an overengeneered solution to the problem as simple as yours. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Git for human beings group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
