Subject: Re: bug#65720: Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much

From: Jelle Licht <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 08:22:48 +0000

Hi Ludo,

> 
> On 4 Sep 2023, at 23:49, Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Of course having to re-clone entire repositories every 9 months is
> ridiculous, but storing gigabytes of packs is worse IMO (I’m
> specifically thinking about the Guix repo, which every users copies via
> ‘guix pull’).

Please ignore if it doesn’t make sense, or would not make a practical difference for the current issue, but wouldn’t a local clone do the trick here? As in, clone from the ‘clogged’ local repo, move over fresh clone to old location.

Kr, Jelle