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

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

That's strange:

address@hidden:~/dev/emacs/emacs$ time git gc
Counting objects: 734772, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (145032/145032), done.
Writing objects: 100% (734772/734772), done.
Total 734772 (delta 589118), reused 734312 (delta 588658)
Checking connectivity: 734772, done.

address@hidden:~/dev/emacs/emacs$ du -sh .git
289M    .git
address@hidden:~/dev/emacs/emacs$ git branch -a | wc
    127     130    4667


Maybe you instructed git to download extra info (such as the meta-data
the fast-import/export process uses and is useful for relating git
commits to their corresponding bzr commits.)