Re: Move to git is imminent - awaiting Stefan's approval

[Sven Axelsson]

On 7 January 2014 19:02, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:
> () Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> () Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:08:04 +0200
>
>    Thanks.  "git gc" gets me from 1.18GB to 1.1GB.  I tried
>    --aggressive, but that ran out of memory (trying to allocate 1GB)
>    after some time and errored out.
>
> I had the same problem in a similar circumstance (git-bzr).  See:
>
>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00329.html
>
> for the resolution (briefly: use "git repack" w/ ‘--window-memory’).
>

Using `git repack -a -d -f --window=250 --depth=250` as mentioned
earlier in the conversation brings the .git folder down to 211 Mb for
me.

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