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ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

(we're doing git gc --aggressive on nixpkgs again. when we first did this, a few years ago, we had much smaller machines and it required a lot of careful massaging to make it finish; also we found a likely-exploitable concurrency bug. these days we can just run it without a problem, but it does take a while. it's not the volume of data, it's the number of files.)