Re: RFS: r-bioc-org.mm.eg.db
HI Étienne,
On 20.09.20 11:09, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> Hi Steffen,
>
> Steffen Möller, on 2020-09-20 04:02:39 +0200:
>> Hello, the git archive occupies 421M on my disk, the tarball is 68MB,
>> the package only 29MB, which I think is worth it. We have the human
>> already in the archive, I would like the others to follow - which means
>> rat, fly and worm to me.
>>
>> I presume that git tries to make sense of the sqlite database and this
>> is why this bloats. Or is it just past version? Anyone with ideas how to
>> reduce the impact on salsa?
> I think `git lfs`, from the package "git-lfs", might help reduce
> the size of large data oriented repositories. I have been
> skimming through Salsa and Gitlab documentation, and I believe
> this should be supported by Salsa as well. Salsa is said to
> have all the features of Gitlab, and Gitlab advertises git lfs
> support:
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa
> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/git/lfs/index.html
>
> However, I never have had the occasion to use git lfs yet. I
> only heard about it first during the presentation on "datalad".
> But it sounds like it might be worth a try.
I used it once and it works. Following your pointers I seem to lack the
tools in Debian to support the transition to a git lfs repository, i.e.
there are no https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ tools and also
the git filter-repo is not available.
git lsf installation and tracking works like a charm, though.
Best,
Steffen
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