Re: Converted git repository available for review

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>> gc does some repacking and compression, not just garbage collection per se.
>>
>> Sure, but why should any of that end up on gitorious if gitorious
>> already has all the references from the last time you pushed?
>
>
> Probably it would be easier to just try it and see. CPUs are
> generally cheaper to run than brains.

Except that we are not talking CPU time here but rather network and
storage capacity.  For an actual complete history rewrite, it might be
more polite to delete the existing repository and recreate it rather
than letting 16 Gigabyte per rewrite sit around at Gitorious for three
months until git gc finally cleans it up there.

-- 
David Kastrup