[libvirt] Repack git repo?

[Jiri Denemark]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:14:02 +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:57:47AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 09:16:13AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> >> So I was checking out the repo the other day and it took ages. So it got
> >> me thinking what might be the problem. Looks like a part of it is that
> >> our pack is split among ~250 files. Therefore when somebody does
> >> checkout git needs to repack it into a single pack every time. And this
> >> may take ages on such slow processor as Atom is. However, reading some
> >> docs on this it looks like 'git gc --aggressive' is not advised rather
> >> than 'git repack'.
> >
> >I created a 'tmp' repo and ran 'repack' on it, but afaict, there's no
> >appreciable difference.
> >
> 
> Other thought I had was having the po/*.po files removed from the repo.
> DV would add them to the release, but they would not take 100MB in the
> repository when they are not needed for development builds.  It would
> not cut down on the data that need to be transferred since they are in
> the history, but at least would take some weight off the repo.  After
> few years we could do a split as linux did and have one repo with
> complete history and one that goes from v4.0.0 onwards.

NACK. There's no real benefit in crippling the repo like this. You can
always make a shallow clone of the repo if you don't want to get the
complete history.

Jirka