bug#65720: closed (Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much)

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way too much
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #65720,
regarding Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much
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> Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much
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> Sun, 03 Sep 2023 22:44:39 +0200
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> Hello!
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> As reported by Tobias on IRC (in the context of ‘hpcguix-web’),
> checkouts managed by Guile-Git appear to grow beyond reason.  As an
> example, here’s the same ‘.git’ managed with Guile-Git and with Git:
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> $ du -hs 
> ~/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq
> 6.7G    
> /home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq
> $ du -hs .git
> 517M    .git
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> It would seem that libgit2 doesn’t do the equivalent of ‘git gc’.
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> Ludo’.
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> Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:00:07 +0100
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> Hi,
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> Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
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> > Somehow I was expressing: my view probably falls into the “Premature
> > optimization is the root of all evil” category.  Other said, I have no
> > objection and I will revisit the issue when I will be on fire, if I am,
> > or annoyed for real.
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> Alright!
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> Pushed as b150c546b04c9ebb09de9f2c39789221054f5eea.
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> Let’s see how it behaves and if there are problems we had overlooked…
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> Ludo’.
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