On Tue, 18 May 2010, Jeff King wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:33:58PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > > It will have to write the whole 200M packfile out each time, though. > > > > No. gc will only create a pack with new loose objects by default. > > Only if the number of packs grow too large will it combine them into one > > pack. > > I think that is only "gc --auto". Argh. You're right. And "gc --auto" is already ran by many commands already. It is "git repack" that doesn't combine packs by default. Nicolas -- 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