[OT] Re: Git repository with full GCC history

[Harvey Harrison]

On 6/3/07, Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es> wrote:
>
> Well, actually the GCC repository does not pack better
> here than yours. It's even worse after having tested
> on 3 different machines just in case. In all cases
> I get about 1.4 GB for the pack with the default
> depth and window parameters.

The defaults changed significantly somewhere near version 1.5.1 I
believe with the delta caching mechanism making it much less expensive
to use a deeper delta depth.

>
> I don't know what Harvey is up to, he claimed his tree
> was between 400 and 500 MB.

Sorry, my mistake, the repo I was looking at only contained a clone of trunk.

>
> There are 50% more objects than in the Linux kernel,
> but with the same packing parameters the pack file is
> almost 10 times larger. It's true that many kernel
> patches are little more than one-liners, but even
> taking this into account, I'm surprised.

I'm starting to pull the rest of the branches now, but I am also a
little surprised at the difference.

Harvey