[Scons-dev] SCons moves to GitHub! https://github.com/SConsProject/scons

[Bill Deegan]

I've not compressed a git repo before, do we lose any information?

-Bill

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 7:54 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I pushed my repository to https://github.com/techtonik/sconsize
> and now git clone downloads only 9 Mb instead of 100 Mb,
>
>     $ git clone https://github.com/techtonik/sconsize
>     ...
>     Receiving objects: 100% (50034/50034), 9.08 MiB | 1.48 MiB/s, done.
>
> Cloning official repo still takes 10 times longer.
>
>     $ git clone https://github.com/SConsProject/scons
>     ...
>     Receiving objects: 100% (51561/51561), 109.12 MiB | 1.06 MiB/s, done.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Anatoly,
> >
> >
> > this isn't quite correct. The figures you show here are for
> >
> >     - removing the docbook folder, AND
> >
> >     - compressing the repository.
> >
> > Your pastebin shows that you don't run a compression *before* removing
> > docbook. If I do a fresh checkout:
> >
> >     git clone https://github.com/SConsProject/scons
> >
> > and then a
> >
> >     git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now
> --aggressive
> >
> > I get
> >
> >     git count-objects -vH
> >
> >     ...
> >
> >     size-pack: 12.26 MiB
> >
> > So, compressing the repo is a good idea in general, and I'm totally for
> it.
> > But removing docbook (which isn't easily possible anyway because our doc
> > toolchain relies on it currently) would save us only 2MB roughly.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> >
> > On 24.09.2017 10:50, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> >>
> >> Just removing docbook-xsl-1.76.1 brings compressed repository
> >> size from 110.50 MiB down to 10.45 MiB
> >>
> >> https://pastebin.mozilla.org/9068127
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 10:50 AM, anatoly techtonik <
> techtonik at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> HI Bill.
> >>>
> >>> History is ok, but repository size is now too big.
> >>>
> >>>      Receiving objects: 100% (51561/51561), 109.12 MiB | 1.08 MiB/s,
> >>> done.
> >>>
> >>> We should take the opportunity to clean up binaries
> >>> and huge commits made by mistake. I am trying to
> >>> see what are they.
> >>>
> >
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