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

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:20:57 +0200

Hello,

Jelle Licht <[email-masked]> skribis:

>> 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.

Good question.

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scheme@(guix git)> ,use(git)
scheme@(guix git)> (clone "/home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/" "/tmp/fresh-clone")
$7 = #<git-repository ba4240>
scheme@(guix git)> (system* "du" "-hs" "/tmp/fresh-clone")
6.7G	/tmp/fresh-clone
$8 = 0
scheme@(guix git)> (system* "du" "-hs" "/tmp/fresh-clone/.git")
6.6G	/tmp/fresh-clone/.git
$9 = 0
scheme@(guix git)> (system* "du" "-hs" "/home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/")
6.7G	/home/ludo/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/
$10 = 0
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Conclusion: it makes no difference.

Ludo’.