docs/rev-list: add some examples of --disk-usage

It's not immediately obvious why --disk-usage might be a useful thing.
These examples show off a few of the real-world cases I've used it for.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King 2021-02-17 18:35:33 -05:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -83,6 +83,47 @@ git rev-list --author=you@example.com --since=1.year.ago --all
git rev-list --objects HEAD
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* Compare the disk size of all reachable objects, versus those
reachable from reflogs, versus the total packed size. This can tell
you whether running `git repack -ad` might reduce the repository size
(by dropping unreachable objects), and whether expiring reflogs might
help.
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# reachable objects
git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --all
# plus reflogs
git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --all --reflog
# total disk size used
du -c .git/objects/pack/*.pack .git/objects/??/*
# alternative to du: add up "size" and "size-pack" fields
git count-objects -v
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* Report the disk size of each branch, not including objects used by the
current branch. This can find outliers that are contributing to a
bloated repository size (e.g., because somebody accidentally committed
large build artifacts).
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git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' |
while read branch
do
size=$(git rev-list --disk-usage --objects HEAD..$branch)
echo "$size $branch"
done |
sort -n
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* Compare the on-disk size of branches in one group of refs, excluding
another. If you co-mingle objects from multiple remotes in a single
repository, this can show which remotes are contributing to the
repository size (taking the size of `origin` as a baseline).
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git rev-list --disk-usage --objects --remotes=$suspect --not --remotes=origin
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GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite