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Re: Git and GCC
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 00:34 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 21:23 +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> >> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:
> >>
> >> Daniel> So I tried a full history conversion using git-svn of the gcc
> >> Daniel> repository (IE every trunk revision from 1-HEAD as of
> >> Daniel> yesterday) The git-svn import was done using repacks every
> >> Daniel> 1000 revisions. After it finished, I used git-gc --aggressive
> >> Daniel> --prune. Two hours later, it finished. The final size after
> >> Daniel> this is 1.5 gig for all of the history of gcc for just trunk.
> >>
> >> Most of the space is probably taken by the SVN specific data. To get
> >> an idea of how GIT would handle GCC data, you should clone the GIT
> >> directory or checkout one from infradead.org:
> >>
> >> % git clone git://git.infradead.org/gcc.git
> >>
> >
> > Actually I went through and created the basis for that repo. It
> > contains all branches and tags in the gcc svn repo and the final
> > pack comes to about 600M. This has _everything_, not just trunk.
>
> Not everything. Only trunk and a few selected branches, and no tags.
>
Yes, everything, by default you only get the more modern branches/tags,
but it's all in there. If there is interest I can work with Bernardo
and get the rest publically exposed.
Harvey