On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> writes:
>> My new clone of git://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git is 196MB,
>> whereas my old clone (last synced around the beginning of September)
>> was 285MB.
>
>> Does anyone know offhand why the sizes are so different?
>
> Magnus did
> git gc --aggressive --prune
> during the conversion. I imagine it's the --aggressive that does it.
It's also possible that some of the history cleanup we did might have
helped, although that's pure speculation on my part.
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