On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:25:28PM +0200, Petko Manolov wrote:

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>> Right, as loose objects. Did you try running "git-gc" to repack?
>
> I did "git repack -f -a -d", but it didn't reduce the repository size.  
> Those binaries are already compressed so any change adds up their size  
> once again.

OK, that was the answer I was looking for; it looks like you are out
of luck.

BTW, the main space-saver in repacking is _not_ compression, but rather
finding deltas between similar objects (e.g., two versions of the same
file that, although large, differ only by a small amount). So even
compressed files can still produce space savings during a repack, though
perhaps not as well because of randomness introduced by the compression.

As an experiment, it might be worth trying to store the uncompressed
versions instead (git will delta _and_ compress them for you).

-Peff
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