Re: size of snapshot archive

On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 10:19:05PM +0200, Dinko Tenev wrote:

On 2/18/07, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

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Hello glasgow-haskell-users,

i'm tried to download newer snapshot of 6.6 and found that now it's 74 mb! why it is so large and why it's so enlarged after 6.6 release? isn't it possible to reduce size of this package?

Does this include darcs version info? I've noticed that darcs generates suspiciously large quantities of "context" info for very small patches (e.g. ~7000 lines of "context" for a ~700 line patch) -- for what I've seen so far, the "context" section might be growing linearly with the file's history.

Darcs send packs data much tighter than darcs itself does, and the results are highly compressable. I have a HEAD tree, obtained with "./darcs-all --extra get --complete" (you're not misreading that); darcs sending everything (incl. subrepositoried) into an empty repo, and 7zipping the patch bundles, produces a single 28mbyte file containing the entire history of ghc+extralibs. (I still have the file but can't share - 10mb webhost quota)