On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 3:53 PM, David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote: > David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> 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? I think commit date is fine because it covers a large portion of objects (649946 per total 739990) and it does not (or should not) affect object ordering in pack-objects/rev-list. > Another thing: did you really use --depth=250 here or did you use > --aggressive? It may be that the latter also sets other options? I can't use --aggressive because I need to feed revisions directly to pack-objects. --aggressive also sets --window=250. Thanks for checking. My machine will have another workout session. -- Duy -- 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