Re: [matplotlib-devel] git-svn matplotlib mirror

[Darren D. <dsd...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:00 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm...> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:
>>> And some of the biggest blobs are associated with svg and pdf files.
>>> It seems possible to remove these files (if needed) from the
>>> repository using "git-filter-branch" to further reduce the size, but
>>> I'm not sure if we need that.
>>
>> Some of this appears to be the result of some svn tags referencing the
>> contents of trunk/htdocs. It looks like I can cut 25 MB off the size
>> of the repo.
>
> That feels pretty good to me, considering that the compressed release
> tarball is 13MB.  If we can get the whole history for twice that, then
> you must be getting pretty close to the limit.

Me too. I just posted the latest version of the repository to
github.com/darrendale/matplotlib.git . Its ~42MB, but it has a bunch
of unreachable objects. As soon as we figure out how to git rid of
them, I think we will be ready to freeze the svn repo and wrap this
up.