Linus Torvalds writes: > I hate irc. >... > Can we perhaps fix that, and the people who ... .. And tell them what the > address is. I hate irc, too. Number of times easily solvable usage problems come up and I look at the log to ...

git - Junio C Hamano - May 20 2006 - 13:50

... Torvalds wrote: >> I'm reading the irc logs, and seeing that people have ... while I was asleep and (b) irc use doesn't encourage people to= ... of the original. Gentoo's an IRC-based community, so I tend to try IRC first for any problems I have and fall back ...

git - Donnie Berkholz - May 20 2006 - 18:18

... , 2006 at 10:26:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I'm reading the irc logs, and seeing that people have problems, but (a) it > was while I was asleep and (b) irc use doesn't encourage people to > actually explain what the problems _are_, so ...

git - Yann Dirson - May 20 2006 - 16:39

... at under a quarter gigabyte for the whole archive once converted (which sounds likely, counting indexing), git would basically cut down the disk usage for a live repo by a factor of 7 or so. _And_ I can do a "git log origin > /dev/null" in about ...

git - Linus Torvalds - May 22 2006 - 05:13

... patch as Linus suggests to do auto-repacking while the import runs so we don't eat up the harddisk. > git would basically cut down the disk usage for a live > repo by a factor of 7 or so. > > _And_ I can do a "git log origin > /dev/null" in about 2 ...

git - Martin Langhoff - May 22 2006 - 08:54

Junio C Hamano wrote: > Maybe somebody can run a dumb 'bot that notices somebody said > something that ends with a '?' and there is no activity there > for N minutes and inject a recorded message that reminds the > mailing list address ;-). Or

git - Jakub Narebski - May 20 2006 - 14:52

On Sat, 20 May 2006, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Our main repo is actually a bit over 2G (2103621223) now that I check, > but it's not very complex. There's actually just one branch, and I don't > think anyone would care if we lost the history

git - Linus Torvalds - May 20 2006 - 18:45

Linus Torvalds wrote: >=20 > On Sat, 20 May 2006, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> Our main repo is actually a bit over 2G (2103621223) now that I check,= >> but it's not very complex. There's actually just one branch, and I don= 't >> think anyone would

git - Donnie Berkholz - May 20 2006 - 19:12

Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Somebody else tried importing it with git-cvsimport, but he said he hit= > some kind of problem and recalled that it was a cvsps segfault. Sounds > about right, since I've never gotten cvsps to run successfully on the >

git - Donnie Berkholz - May 20 2006 - 21:14

On Sat, 20 May 2006, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > I don't want to post the link publicly for a few reasons, including the > huge amount of bandwidth it would suck up for lots of people to download > it. I've sent it to you off-list, and if anyone

git - Linus Torvalds - May 21 2006 - 15:24

On Sat, 20 May 2006, Yann Dirson wrote: > > FWIW, I have mentionned a problem that may be the same, under > Message-ID <20060107090148.GB32585@nowhere.earth>, that was on January > 7th. Namely, when importing a repository with very large files

git - Linus Torvalds - May 21 2006 - 21:45

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > Fortunately the storms haven't been that bad down in Corvallis. cvsps > also worked fine for me, but git-cvsimport broke in the middle. Hmm. It's actually possible that it did that for me too - I

git - Linus Torvalds - May 22 2006 - 00:50

On 5/22/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I wouldn't be in the least surprised if that ends up triggering a slow > leak in CVS itself, and then CVS runs out of memory. I'm dying to try this out myself after work. I don't discard that

git - Martin Langhoff - May 22 2006 - 01:04

Linus Torvalds wrote: > Did you do a "top" at any time just before this all happened? It _sound= s_=20 > like it might actually be a memory leak on the CVS server side, and the= =20 > problem may (or may not) be due to the optimization that keeps a

git - Donnie Berkholz - May 22 2006 - 01:21

On 5/22/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Did you do a "top" at any time just before this all happened? It _sounds_ > like it might actually be a memory leak on the CVS server side, and the > problem may (or may not) be due to the

git - Martin Langhoff - May 22 2006 - 03:42

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > And there are two patches that I suspect may fix the leak. After > applying them, the cvsimport process grows up to ~13MB and then tapers > off, at least as far as my patience has gotten me. It's

git - Linus Torvalds - May 22 2006 - 13:27

Linus Torvalds wrote: > git repack -a > # > # Stupid sleep to make sure that nobody is still > # using any unpacked objects after the pack got >

git - Jakub Narebski - May 22 2006 - 13:51

> But people _should_ realize that removing objects is very very special. Just a similar question: is there any reason not tu run git repack/prune-packed as cron job? I would think of something like this for every night: - git prune-packed (

git - Matthias Lederhofer - May 22 2006 - 15:03

Matthias Lederhofer writes: > ... Is there any way to > delete unnecessary packs (those which would repack -a -d delete)? > Making it possible to do a git repack -a and delete those packs the > next night? pack-redundant is

git - Junio C Hamano - May 22 2006 - 15:09

Martin Langhoff wrote: > On 5/22/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Mon, 22 May 2006, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> > >> > Or a slow leak in Perl? The 5.8.8 release notes do talk about some >> > leaks being fixed, but this 5.8.8 isn't

git - Donnie Berkholz - May 22 2006 - 15:09