hg-git converted repo is massive

[Isaac Jurado]

Replying Harvey Chapman:
>
> chapman at minty ~/HG/linux-sakoman/.hg/store $ ls -lhS
> total 4.1G
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hchapman hchapman 3.9G Jan 27 11:02 00manifest.d
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hchapman hchapman 129M Jan 27 11:02 00changelog.d
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hchapman hchapman  21M Jan 27 11:02 00changelog.i
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hchapman hchapman  21M Jan 27 11:02 00manifest.i
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hchapman hchapman 2.6M Jan 27 11:01 fncache
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hchapman hchapman  29K Jan 28 14:10 phaseroots
> drwxrwxr-x 26 hchapman hchapman 4.0K Jan 26 12:19 data
> drwxrwxr-x  3 hchapman hchapman 4.0K Jan 26 00:22 dh
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hchapman hchapman   93 Jan 27 11:02 undo
> -rw-rw-r--  1 hchapman hchapman   86 Jan 27 11:02 undo.phaseroots
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 hchapman hchapman   11 Jan 28 14:10 lock -> minty:30611
>
>> On a side note: annotate on such a packed git repo is slow as hell,
>> whereas the converted Mercurial repo (with my patch) is about 10
>> times faster. Other operations are reasonably fast, of course, so I
>> guess it all boils down to what you are willing to trade for the
>> storage space…
>
> The disk space is not a huge deal breaker for me, it just makes first
> time setup of new dev machines more time consuming and increases the
> size of baseline build VMs.

In order to alleviate that, you could use bundles the same way the
Mozilla guys do:

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Developer_Guide/Source_Code/Mercurial#Bundles

Their have "native" Mercurial that size up to almost a Gigabyte.

Cheers.

-- 
Isaac Jurado

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