[darcs-devel] [patch1134] resolve issue1987: Garbage collection for inventories ...

[Simon Michael]

Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com> added the comment:

Correction - after applying this patch, darcs optimize *does* clean
patches/ . Hurrah!

for d in _darcs/{inventories,patch_index,patches}; do find $d | wc -l; done
darcs2.9.8+1134 optimize
for d in _darcs/{inventories,patch_index,patches}; do find $d | wc -l; done
262
5
35837
Done optimizing!
13
5
2454

Here are the overall repo sizes:

cd ..; du -s *
305532  repo-original
33024   repo-optimized-with-patch1134
15540   repo-copied-with-get

This is most helpful, even though the optimized copy is still reported
as twice as large as a freshly got copy. Looking more closely with du
shows only a 5M difference between their respective _darcs directories,
and both have the same number of files. I assume this must be some kind
of normal filesystem/du reporting issue.

So.. how safe is it to run darcs optimize with this patch frequently on
all darcs hub repos ?

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