Re: Git repack on Savannah [was: Re: Git transition checklist]

[Bob Proulx]

James Cloos wrote:
> >>>>> "ESR" == Eric S Raymond writes:
> ESR> 1. Given the restrictions Savannah has on shell access to repository
> ESR>    directories, I'm not sure it's possible at all. I have not been able
> ESR>    to find any way to force a repack remotely.
> 
> AIUI, the public method is to open a request for a repack at:
> 
>   https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?group=administration

There is no need.  There is a cron task that periodically repacks all
of the repositories once a month.  It is a rather heavy task to do for
all of the repositories and therefore it runs at a low priority
periodically but not every day.  Here is the emacs related output from
the last run.

  ./emacs-epackage.git...
  ./emacs-epackage.git 740 KiB->740 (saved 0% in 1s)
  ./emacs-i18n.git...
  ./emacs-i18n.git     116 KiB->116 (saved 0% in 0s)
  ./emacs-tiny-tools.git...
  ./emacs-tiny-tools.git 7096 KiB->7096 (saved 0% in 1s)
  ./emacs.git...
  ./emacs.git          1218808 KiB->1074624 (saved 11.82% in 233s)
  ./emacs/elpa.git...
  ./emacs/elpa.git     28248 KiB->26772 (saved 5.22% in 5s)

Bob