Re: [cdt-dev] git/gerrit

[Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Looking at the Linux kernel, the checkout is at 428MB and the .git directory
> is at 346MB.
> For us, org.eclipse.cdt currently checks out at 187MB. The .git directory is
> at 150MB. Of the things in the repo, we have a bunch of things that could be
> tossed including 25MB of 'old'.
> So I for one don't think it's too big. Especially since I tend to check out
> the entire CDT (and so should you ;).
> :D

I'm cc'ng Shawn who has experience in shrinking Git repositories.
There's some tuning you can do to shrink and optimize the size of your
Git repositories. I'm not familiar with it off the top of my head, but
I'm sure Shawn will chime in.

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