[Koha-devel] Repack git repo

[Liz Rea]

Ok, what time of day in UTC do you like for this?

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 3:19 AM Jonathan Druart <
jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> Some of you may know, we got an issue with our Koha gitlab repo, it
> was not syncing because of too big (no detail here, but that did not
> really make sense anyway). It seems that it is syncing now but we
> removed all the branches that are not protected (so only master)
>
> I had a new try at splitting our repo, removing the po files from the
> core repo (
> https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Git_Splitting_and_Shrinking).
> It's not a trivial process as it requires several changes, but I
> noticed that:
>
> After a git clone: `git count-objects -vH` returns 3.67/4.23 GiB
> (cannot remember the correct number, but high!)
> After a repack [1]: ~755 MiB
>
> The command I used: `git gc --aggressive --prune=now`
>
> I think we should schedule that command on the git server (it took
> around 3 hours on a small VPS) to reduce its size.
>
> I am available if you need any helps for that task.
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
> PS: you may need to increase the windowMemory value with: `git config
> --global pack.windowMemory 256m`
>
> [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-repack
>
> Spoiler: After removing the po file, and a repack, the repo index size is
> 127MiB
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