On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Sam Vilain wrote: > Dana How wrote: > > This patch complicates git-repack.sh quite a bit and > > I'm unclear on what _problem_ you're addressing. > > The problem is simple, and it is partially in the eye of the beholder. > > That is; > > 1. without repacking, you get a lot of loose objects. > - unnecessary disk space usage > - bad performance on many OSes No argument. > 2. repack takes too long to run very regularly; it's an occasional > command. It doesn't take long at all when you don't use -a. > 3. the perception that git repositories are not maintenance free. But this perception is true! It is possible to automate it, but some maintenance is necessary at some point. > What I'm aiming for is something which is light enough that it might > even win back the performance loss you got from 1), and to solve the > perception problem of 3). Run git-repack without -a from some hook. You can even launch it in the background. Or what am I missing? 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
