[IPython-dev] Making our git repo much smaller?

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 00:26:59 EST 2011


On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That sums up most of my experience with git as a whole. ;-)
>
> My brief fiddling with my IPython checkout suggests that only the repack command
> does the major amount of compression (although following it up with gc is just
> good hygiene). None of those commands ought to do damage. Pushing to github
> doesn't seem to affect later checkouts, though. github does seem to run a
> standard no-options gc on every push, but they don't seem to repack.
>
> http://support.github.com/discussions/feature-requests/751-garbage-collection-or-repository-repack

Thanks for that tip... I'll post a new request to see what they say
about running a manual repack for us, perhaps.

Cheers,

f



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