Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> For old projects, commits older than 1-2 years is probably less often
> accessed and could use some aggressive packing.
I used to repack older part of history manually with a deeper depth,
mark the result with the .keep bit, and then repack the whole thing
again to have the remainder in a shallower depth. Something like:
git rev-list --objects v1.5.3 |
git pack-objects --depth=128 --delta-base-offset pack
would give me the first pack (in real life, I would use a larger
window size like 4096), and then after placing the resulting .pack
and .idx files along with a .keep file in .git/objects/pack/,
running "git repack -a -d" to pack the rest.
> This still hits git-blame badly. We could even make sure all
> objects "on the blame surface" have short delta chain. But that
> may be pushing pack-objects too much.
Yes, you can do a similar trick by blaming all the paths that ever
existed in the project, parse its --porcelain output to learn all
the commits and paths involved, to find the objects that need
quicker access. Pack such objects in a pack with a shallow depth,
tentatively mark that pack with .keep, repack the remainder with a
deep depth, remove .keep from the first pack and mark the new pack
with .keep to prevent it from getting repacked, or something like
that.
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