diff --git a/scratch/profile-swhgitloader.py b/scratch/profile-swhgitloader.py
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--- a/scratch/profile-swhgitloader.py
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-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-# Copyright (C) 2015  Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>,
-#                     Antoine R. Dumont <antoine.romain.dumont@gmail.com>
-# See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
-# License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
-# See top-level LICENSE file for more information
-
-import os
-
-from swh.gitloader import loader
-
-
-conf = {
-    'db_url': 'dbname=swhgitloader',
-    # 'repository': os.path.expanduser('./test-repo'),
-    'repository': os.path.expanduser('../debsources'),
-    'content_storage_dir':  '/tmp/swh-git-loader/content-storage',
-    'folder_depth':  4
-}
-
-conf['action'] = 'cleandb'
-loader.load(conf)
-
-conf['action'] = 'initdb'
-loader.load(conf)
-
-conf['action'] = 'load'
-loader.load(conf)
diff --git a/scratch/scratch-pickle.py b/scratch/scratch-pickle.py
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-import pickle
-import zlib
-import os
-
-#file_path_sample = '/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh-git-loader-testdata/.git/objects/08/2a4aac696b8645e39771c2ba61e6e4a4aaf989'
-file_path_sample = '/home/tony/work/inria/repo/swh-git-loader-testdata/.git/objects/26/4f1dacc1460bddb84c3e3e2eeb8b6f03fd172e'
-
-def read_git_object_content(filepath):
-    if os.path.exists(filepath):
-        with open(filepath, 'rb') as f:
-            content = f.read()
-
-        return zlib.decompress(content)
-    return None
-
-map_content = { 'lion': 'yellow'
-              , 'kitty': 'red'
-              , 'content': read_git_object_content(file_path_sample)
-              }
-
-# marshall/serialize/pickle
-pickle.dump(map_content, open( 'save.p', 'wb' ))
-
-# unmarshal/deserialize/unpickle
-map_content_loaded = pickle.load( open( 'save.p', 'rb' ) )
-# {'content': b'tree 37\x00100644 README.md\x00\x8b\xbb\x0b\xcc6\x9a\xb3\xba\xa4#\xda\xcc6\x00a\x81:1\x05\xf3', 'lion': 'yellow', 'kitty': 'red'}