Re: [Sbcl-devel] discoverable branches and DVCSes (was Re: SBCL on LLVM)

[Andreas F. <as...@bo...>]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 03:46, Nathan Froyd <fr...@gm...> wrote:
> This is quite useful; it is worth noting that github free accounts
> only have 300MB of free space.  (More can be acquired, but you have to
> pay for it.)  My sbcl.git (with a couple of personal branches) is
> ~240MB, which is, IMHO, a little too close to the limit for comfort.

They count only the size of the .git directory, which is currently
21MB for my repacked mirror of the SBCL repo (-:

> OTOH, it's possible that forks of projects use hard links, in which
> case somebody forking sbcl.git on github would pay a negligible amount
> of space for their twiddling around.

You could try "git repack -Ad" and see what space you can save with that (-:

Cheers,
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Andreas Fuchs, (http://|im:asf@|mailto:asf@)boinkor.net, antifuchs