On Windows, git-gui suggests running the garbage collector if it finds 1 or more files in .git/objects/42 (as opposed to 8 files on other platforms). The probability of that happening if the repo contains about 100 loose objects is 32%. The probability for the same to happen when searching 4 directories is only 8%, which is bit more reasonable. Also remove $objects_limit from the message, because we already know that we are above (or close to) that limit. Telling the user about that number does not really give him any useful information. The following octave script shows the probability for at least m*q objects to be found in q subdirectories of .git/objects if n is the total number of objects. q = 4; m = [1 2 8]; n = 0:10:2000; P = zeros(length(n), length(m)); for k = 1:length(n) P(k, :) = 1-binocdf(q*m-1, n(k), q/(256-q)); end plot(n, P); n \ q 1 4 50 18% 1% 100 32% 8% 200 54% 39% 500 86% 96% Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@xxxxxx> --- git-gui/lib/database.tcl | 21 ++++++++++----------- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-gui/lib/database.tcl b/git-gui/lib/database.tcl index a18ac8b..d4e0bed 100644 --- a/git-gui/lib/database.tcl +++ b/git-gui/lib/database.tcl @@ -89,27 +89,26 @@ proc do_fsck_objects {} { } proc hint_gc {} { - set object_limit 8 + set ndirs 1 + set limit 8 if {[is_Windows]} { - set object_limit 1 + set ndirs 4 + set limit 1 } - set objects_current [llength [glob \ - -directory [gitdir objects 42] \ + set count [llength [glob \ -nocomplain \ - -tails \ -- \ - *]] + [gitdir objects 4\[0-[expr {$ndirs-1}]\]/*]]] - if {$objects_current >= $object_limit} { - set objects_current [expr {$objects_current * 250}] - set object_limit [expr {$object_limit * 250}] + if {$count >= $limit * $ndirs} { + set objects_current [expr {$count * 256/$ndirs}] if {[ask_popup \ [mc "This repository currently has approximately %i loose objects. -To maintain optimal performance it is strongly recommended that you compress the database when more than %i loose objects exist. +To maintain optimal performance it is strongly recommended that you compress the database. -Compress the database now?" $objects_current $object_limit]] eq yes} { +Compress the database now?" $objects_current]] eq yes} { do_gc } } -- 1.6.5.rc0.164.g5f6b0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html