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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle•de>
To: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to reduce disk usage for large .git dirs?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:03:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141113120313.GB15503@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141113114919.GA2737@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

On Thu, Nov 13, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > 
> > How can I reduce the disk usage for multiple copies of the same repo?
> 
> You can use --local och --shared. As you say --shared can be dangerous.
> If you don't understand the man page enough to know how you should
> manage your clones you should probably not use it.

Perhaps its more a lack of doc how to use the result.

> --local seems to be what you're looking for.

I will try this.

> However as a side note I'm curious about what your use case is. Why do
> you need this many repos?

Because I do work in each copy, poke around, or do commits and push
them.

> Your setup looks familiar to me for a subversion user switching to git
> and trying to use git as subversion. The common usecase is not to have
> multiple worktrees but to do a checkout to the worktree you need to work
> on. This is possible with git since it's very fast and I recommend you
> to try to use one worktree.

Switching branches will invalidate timestamps, causing a full rebuild.

Olaf

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-13 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-13 11:14 how to reduce disk usage for large .git dirs? Olaf Hering
2014-11-13 11:49 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2014-11-13 12:03   ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2014-11-14 12:32     ` Jakub Narębski
2014-11-13 12:02 ` Roger Gammans
2014-11-13 12:21   ` Olaf Hering
2014-11-13 12:09 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-11-13 15:44 ` Olaf Hering
2014-11-13 16:03   ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2014-11-13 16:08     ` Johan Herland
2014-11-13 20:15       ` Jeff King
2014-11-14 10:14     ` Olaf Hering
2014-11-14 10:24       ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2014-11-14 10:30         ` Olaf Hering
2014-11-14 10:54           ` Olaf Hering
2014-11-14 11:24     ` Olaf Hering
2014-11-14 15:06       ` Andreas Schwab
2014-11-25 14:32         ` Olaf Hering

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