* Centralized repository
@ 2007-02-25 2:14 bob
2007-02-25 6:04 ` Jeff King
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From: bob @ 2007-02-25 2:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
I know that this has been mentioned before. So, I will only bring it
up once (from me at least).
I have a project that is currently over 2gigs without .git and
growing. It is a personal website that I use to provide/remind me of
things that I used to remember when I was younger. When you put a
GIT repostitory in it, you get almost 4gigs of space taken (and this
amount is growing all the time). Then I keep it centralized, because
I own several machines (OK, way too many, over 20 currently,
dedicated to Folding@Home). So, it takes up a lot of disk space over
all those machines.
Because it is so big, cloning no longer works. I can't remember the
exact errors, but I gave up and now tar up a semi-current version
and untar it on a new/re-installed machine. Then I do a "pull" to
update it and that works when the clone doesn't. I should mention
that I have only 2 windows machines, but run GIT on all the rest
which are Linux and MacOSX machines.
Anyway, for this one repository, I would really like GIT to support
the CVS/SVN central repository system. The rest of the time, I am
quite happy with GIT's distributed system even though all of my
repositories are really just for me.
Last, thanks for GIT. I really enjoy it and use it daily and have
never had it fail on me (no matter what I did!)!
Bob White
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* Re: Centralized repository
2007-02-25 2:14 Centralized repository bob
@ 2007-02-25 6:04 ` Jeff King
2007-02-25 9:51 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-25 21:08 ` Martin Waitz
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From: Jeff King @ 2007-02-25 6:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bob; +Cc: git
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 09:14:27PM -0500, bob wrote:
> Anyway, for this one repository, I would really like GIT to support
> the CVS/SVN central repository system. The rest of the time, I am
> quite happy with GIT's distributed system even though all of my
> repositories are really just for me.
For a while I was running git with an 80-gig repository of media files.
I found it useful to network mount the central git repo (I used SMB),
and clone to the local machine using alternates (i.e., "git clone -s
/net/mounted/git /local/git"). It should work as a normal git repo,
except that all object accesses will transparently go over the network,
which obviously slows things down a bit (but no slower than CVS!).
You should be able to pack at your size of repo (I obviously couldn't,
but I was working with a few very large files, so the overhead wasn't
too bad).
HTH,
-Peff
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* Re: Centralized repository
2007-02-25 2:14 Centralized repository bob
2007-02-25 6:04 ` Jeff King
@ 2007-02-25 9:51 ` Andy Parkins
2007-02-25 15:50 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-02-25 21:08 ` Martin Waitz
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From: Andy Parkins @ 2007-02-25 9:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git; +Cc: bob
On Sunday 2007, February 25, bob wrote:
> Anyway, for this one repository, I would really like GIT to support
> the CVS/SVN central repository system. The rest of the time, I am
In the case of subversion: you really /wouldn't/ want that model.
Subversion keeps a local pristine copy in the .svn directory of every
file. This makes local diffs and stats fast and not require network
access, but also doubles the storage requirements of your working
directory.
I've found that a packed git repository is often smaller than a full
checkout of the project (it's almost scary actually - your entire
project's history in less space than the project).
Andy
--
Dr Andrew Parkins, M Eng (Hons), AMIEE
andyparkins@gmail.com
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* Re: Centralized repository
2007-02-25 9:51 ` Andy Parkins
@ 2007-02-25 15:50 ` Robin Rosenberg
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From: Robin Rosenberg @ 2007-02-25 15:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andy Parkins; +Cc: git, bob
söndag 25 februari 2007 10:51 skrev Andy Parkins:
> On Sunday 2007, February 25, bob wrote:
>
> > Anyway, for this one repository, I would really like GIT to support
> > the CVS/SVN central repository system. The rest of the time, I am
>
> In the case of subversion: you really /wouldn't/ want that model.
> Subversion keeps a local pristine copy in the .svn directory of every
> file. This makes local diffs and stats fast and not require network
> access, but also doubles the storage requirements of your working
> directory.
>
> I've found that a packed git repository is often smaller than a full
> checkout of the project (it's almost scary actually - your entire
> project's history in less space than the project).
That doesn't apply to a repo full of (already compressed) binaries media
files. You cannot pack them unless the binaries are so small that the wasted
space at the end of the last disk block is a significant amount of the total
used. You cannot diff them either, other than seeing that they are different.
Besides the 4 GB mentioned isn't much nowadays. If it is annoying to have
the .git directory in the same filesystem tree you can place the .git
directory somewhere else and drop a symbolic link in it's place.
Btw, is it possible to make a full repo shallow again, by pruning
the "uninteresting" part of the history? That would make it possible to trim
down the size of the local archive.
-- robin
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* Re: Centralized repository
2007-02-25 2:14 Centralized repository bob
2007-02-25 6:04 ` Jeff King
2007-02-25 9:51 ` Andy Parkins
@ 2007-02-25 21:08 ` Martin Waitz
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From: Martin Waitz @ 2007-02-25 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bob; +Cc: git
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hoi :)
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 09:14:27PM -0500, bob wrote:
> Because it is so big, cloning no longer works. I can't remember the
> exact errors, but I gave up and now tar up a semi-current version
> and untar it on a new/re-installed machine. Then I do a "pull" to
> update it and that works when the clone doesn't.
this is fixed in the master branch now.
--
Martin Waitz
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* Re: Centralized repository
@ 2007-02-28 18:33 bob
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From: bob @ 2007-02-28 18:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Thank you, Andy Parkins, Jeff King and Robin Rosenberg, for your
replies. You have given me some ideas to look into. I had not
thought about linking the .git directory to somewhere else such as
SMB, NFS, AFP or an external harddrive. I copied a simpler .git to a
FAT32 drive, made a soft link to it and everything seemed to work
fine. I will continue to play. Thanks for the ideas. They were just
what I was looking for.
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