On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was talking with Sijis in IRC about ways to help improve clone times
> for the git repo.  Looking at the repo on hosted, it could really
> benefit from a git repack.  This takes all the loose object files and
> puts them neatly into .pack files.  It also optimizing them based on
> how they change from commit to commit.
>
> I did this on a copy and shrank the git repo from 431M to 225M (this
> excludes the size of the checked out files -- it's basically the size
> of the .git dir in a clone).
>
> I could do this on the official repo if we wanted.  It would mean
> disabling the repo for a short time (half an hour at most).  Anyone
> see a reason not to do this?
>
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I'm all for it.

Sijis
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