Re: Help analyzing the parsed paths to help reduce the GTAGS size

[Shigio YAMAGUCHI]

Hello,
You can use the -d option to dump a tag file.

        $ gtags -d GPATH
        $ gtags -d GTAGS

Regards,
Shigio

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 5:34 AM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am using GNU Global to parse a huge project, but the GTAGS file
> seems to get much larger than I expect. This file used to be around
> 5GB but after some updates in the project this file has blown up in
> size.
>
> .rw-r--r--   16G kmodi 17 May 19:18 GTAGS
> .rw-r--r--   14M kmodi 17 May 19:18 GPATH
> .rw-r--r--  7.9M kmodi 17 May 19:18 GRTAGS
>
> Is there a good way to diagnose which paths in the project contribute
> to this? Often, gtags crawl into certain paths which I don't typically
> care.
>
> If I can get visibility into which paths were parsed, that can help me
> reduce the db size too. For example, is there a way to print the GPATH
> in plain ascii format?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Kaushal Modi
>


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