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[[!meta title="unreachable git objects"]]
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Hi,
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I am been seeing quite big overheads using `git-annex`. Is this is normal?
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The `.git/objects` folder is explosive in my system, often being larger
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than the content watched by git-annex. Here's the actual statistics
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of my git-annex folders, where the fourth column is calculated as col3/(col2-col3).
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[[!table data="""
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folder,size,size .git,relative size
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conf.annex,777536,720100,12.537433
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doc.annex,20351624,11260204,1.2385528
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images.annex,817064,435580,1.1418041
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misc.annex,803328,572476,2.4798399
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music.annex,23756116,9192740,0.63122314"""]]
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That is, four of five repos require more space for the `.git` folder than the actual files. Most of this comes from the `objects` folder.
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Number of files:
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[[!table data="""
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folder,no. files,no files .git,relative size
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conf.annex,11350,9539,5.2672557
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doc.annex,84954,66824,3.6858246
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images.annex,92787,91285,60.775632
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misc.annex,95461,95160,316.14618
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music.annex,16414,13520,4.6717346
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"""]]
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I use the assistant web interface, and direct
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mode. I use two laptops running Linux that are synchronized
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directly over LAN at home or via a transfer repo on a ssh server
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where git-annex is installed. The latter is set up using the web interface and the gcrypt repo.
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[Mostly, the transfer repo isn't working
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and I often end up with only symlinks on the computer where I did not edit the file in question,
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but this is probably unrelated.]
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I have previously tried to fix it using `git gc` or `git annex forget`, but it doesn't seem to significantly reduce the sizes, and what it helps isn't persistent.
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Is this kind of 'overhead' something that one must accept when using
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`git-annex` or do such numbers indicate that something is wrong?
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Thanks.
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