Re: git gc --aggressive led to about 40 times slower "git log --raw"

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> OK with git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git we have
>
>  - a 209MB pack with --aggressive
>  - 1.3GB with --depth=50
>  - 1.3GB with --window=4000 --depth=32
>  - 1.3GB with --depth=20
>  - 821MB with --depth=250 for commits --before=2.years.ago, --depth=50
> for the rest
>
> So I don't think we should go with your following patch because the
> size explosion is just too much no matter how faster it could be. An
> immediate action could be just make --depth=250 configurable and let
> people deal with it. A better option is something like "3 repack
> steps" you described where we pack deep depth first, mark .keep, pack
> shallower depth and combine them all into one.
>
> I'm not really happy with --depth=250 producing 209MB while
> --depth=250 --before=2.year.ago a 800MB pack. It looks wrong (or maybe
> I did something wrong)

That does look strange: Emacs has a history of more than 30 years.  But
the Git mirror is quite younger.  Maybe one needs to make sure to use
the author date rather than the commit date here?

-- 
David Kastrup
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