[OT] Re: Git repository with full GCC history

[Harvey Harrison]

On 6/7/07, Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org> wrote:
> Harvey Harrison wrote:
>
> > The final results of a repository holding a clone of trunk:
>
> With or without branches? (shouldn't matter that much, just
> for the record)
>

Just trunk.

> > Size of git packs:
> > pack + index - 286344kB
> > git svn metadata - nearly 13MB, allows incremental updates as more
> > commits made in svn.
>
> That's great, but... could you tell us how you did it?

git repack -a -d -f --window=100 --depth=100

(I know the depth is a bit much, depth=50 produces about 420MB pack).
Be prepared to wait a long time to finish.  But hopefully I'll have it
up somewhere soon for others.

Cheers,

Harvey