bdowning@xxxxxxxxx (Brian Downing) writes: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:40:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes (draft) >> ======================== >> >> * New commands and options. > > - "git repack" learned a "window-memory" limit which dynamically > reduces the window size to stay within the specified memory usage. Thanks. > "git-repack -a -d -f --window=100000 --window-memory=512m" seems to be > good for those overnight make-it-smaller-damn-the-torpedoes archival > repackings. (You can't just set --window to BIGNUM as it still > allocates an array of that size.) Thanks to Nicolas Pitre's depth bias > patch a high --depth doesn't seem to be quite as critical anymore to > save space; it still helps, but things much much better at a lower > depth. This probably should go to Documentation/git-repack.txt somewhere. - 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
