On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > [before] > real 0m28.824s > user 0m28.620s > sys 0m0.232s > > [after] > real 0m21.694s > user 0m21.544s > sys 0m0.172s > > The numbers below are completely pulled out of a hat, so we can perhaps > do even better. But I think it shows that there is room for improvement > in the delta base cache. There is definitely room for improvement in delta base cache: increasing cache size, better eviction strategies.. But I think it's orthogonal to gc --aggressive improvement. From what Linus described ---aggressive is more for archival purposes but I think people have been using it for upstream repos as well. Better packed repos could speed up current clients immediately (although this argument is somewhat flawed, server updates are usually at slower pace than clients..). -- 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