On Mon, 7 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:13:58PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >> ... > >> Especially if you're aware and interested in those options, you won't be > >> afraid of 'git repack -a -f -d --window=...". > >> > >> In the context of "gc", having an option that reads "window" looks a bit > >> strange too. > > > > I suppose, but you either need to then know all of the other commands > > which git-gc runs, and do them manually, skipping git-gc altogether, > > or use git-gc, and end up rewriting the pack twice,... > > If the user really wants to tweak the parameters that much and > that often, I think what Nico says, plus your pack.depth/window > configuration variables, make more sense. Also, once you've run git-repack with -f and the window/depth params you want, those deltas will be reused as is by default afterwards even if you use git-gc. So the big repack to tighten a large repo needs only to be done once. Nicolas - 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
