Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> 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. Well that depends how many loose objects there are :) I heard about on Windows a case where packing 30k loose objects took over an hour. >> 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? If you repack every 100 objects without -a, sure it will be fast, but you'll end up with too many packs. Sam. - 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