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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-02-04 15:28:05 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-02-04 15:28:05 -0400 |
| commit | 81efb67daa15f3c348a0dddab50b7ecfde5e51d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 229fb9284957cf5cb50cc973e463c503375296ee | |
| parent | c0c35104a38c59af372b2f8153a92cd885140347 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/scalability_with_lots_of_files/comment_1_b9bb0a71d81b8cbc2a751bb7bab84812._comment b/doc/forum/scalability_with_lots_of_files/comment_1_b9bb0a71d81b8cbc2a751bb7bab84812._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0a58c1c71 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/scalability_with_lots_of_files/comment_1_b9bb0a71d81b8cbc2a751bb7bab84812._comment @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2015-02-04T19:21:07Z" + content=""" +Git automatically packs loose object files after a while, which includes +git-annex branch files. See `git-gc --help`. + +It also delta compresses files, and git-annex's log files will delta +compress and compress pretty well, so your du's of a checked out git-annex +branch don't mean much. + +As far as I can tell, your git repository is 118mb in size, including +the git-annex branch and all history. + +You can use `git annex forget` to drop historical location tracking +info for files. +"""]] |