Re: repository size differences

At 2010-09-21 17:53:22 -0400, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know offhand why the sizes are so different?
>
> Magnus did
> git gc --aggressive --prune
> during the conversion. I imagine it's the --aggressive that does it.

That's not it. I ran the same git gc command on my old repository, and
it didn't make any difference to the size. (I didn't try with a larger
window size, though.)

Oh well, it's probably just some problem with the older conversion, and
doesn't matter now. The number of commits ("git rev-list --all|wc -l")
is broadly similar (36848 old, 35978 new), as is the number of packed
objects (~383k old, ~387k new).

I'm certainly not complaining about git clone being twice as fast. :-)

-- ams