On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Sam Vilain wrote: > 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. And your patch cannot change anything to that, right? You shouldn't wait until 30k loose objects accumulate before repacking. > >> 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. You just need to adjust this treshold of 100 objects. And latest GIT behaves _much_ better with lots of packs, almost like if there was only one pack. See the test results I posted to the list. 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
