Re: [PATCH] git exproll: steps to tackle gc aggression

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On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +               Garbage collect using a pseudo logarithmic packfile maintenance
> +               approach.  This approach attempts to minimize packfile churn
> +               by keeping several generations of varying sized packfiles around
> +               and only consolidating packfiles (or loose objects) which are
> +               either new packfiles, or packfiles close to the same size as
> +               another packfile.

I wonder if a simpler approach may be nearly efficient as this one:
keep the largest pack out, repack the rest at fetch/push time so there
are at most 2 packs at a time. Or we we could do the repack at 'gc
--auto' time, but with lower pack threshold (about 10 or so). When the
second pack is as big as, say half the size of the first, merge them
into one at "gc --auto" time. This can be easily implemented in
git-repack.sh.
-- 
Duy
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