On 2013-12-05 at 14:32:10 +0100, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: [...]
whereas, when I create a new git repo containing only the HEAD commit from testsuite.git, the resulting single packfile:
204K Dec 5 14:19 .git/objects/pack/pack-27355d714321978fd34c21ce341a7b55f416719a.idx 2.5M Dec 5 14:19 .git/objects/pack/pack-27355d714321978fd34c21ce341a7b55f416719a.pack
this seemed to be a significant increase to me;
PS: if anyone wonders why the testsuite.git history is so large: there were a few *huge* binary files with bad compressibility checked in by accident, such as the one removed via http://git.haskell.org/testsuite.git/commitdiff/68acef7dd144452db12689db3299... tests/haddock/should_compile_flag_nohaddock/a.out | Bin 2745963 -> 0 bytes tests/haddock/should_compile_noflag_nohaddock/a.out | Bin 2745963 -> 0 bytes or http://git.haskell.org/testsuite.git/commitdiff/cb540135b26504cffe557fd57fa3... tests/ghc-regress/dph/diophantine/dph-diophantine-fast | Bin 16854700 -> 0 bytes tests/ghc-regress/dph/diophantine/dph-diophantine-opt | Bin 17017376 -> 0 bytes tests/ghc-regress/dph/primespj/dph-primespj-fast | Bin 16783780 -> 0 bytes tests/ghc-regress/dph/quickhull/dph-quickhull-fast | Bin 17092732 -> 0 bytes tests/ghc-regress/dph/smvm/dph-smvm | Bin 16581028 -> 0 bytes tests/ghc-regress/dph/sumnats/dph-sumnats | Bin 16101268 -> 0 bytes tests/ghc-regress/dph/words/dph-words-fast | Bin 17580076 -> 0 bytes which account for most of the ~20MiB history....