The default was not to change the window or depth at all. As suggested by Jon Smirl, Linus Torvalds and others, default to --window=250 --depth=250 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > > Actually, it turns out that git-gc --aggressive does this dumb > > thing to pack files sometimes regardless of whether you > > converted from an SVN repo or not. > > Absolutely. git --aggressive is mostly dumb. It's really only > useful for the case of "I know I have a *really* bad pack, and I > want to throw away all the bad packing decisions I have done". > > [...] > > So the equivalent of "git gc --aggressive" - but done *properly* > - is to do (overnight) something like > > git repack -a -d --depth=250 --window=250 How about this, then? builtin-gc.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-gc.c b/builtin-gc.c index 799c263..c6806d3 100644 --- a/builtin-gc.c +++ b/builtin-gc.c @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static const char * const builtin_gc_usage[] = { }; static int pack_refs = 1; -static int aggressive_window = -1; +static int aggressive_window = 250; static int gc_auto_threshold = 6700; static int gc_auto_pack_limit = 20; @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ int cmd_gc(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (aggressive) { append_option(argv_repack, "-f", MAX_ADD); + append_option(argv_repack, "--depth=250", MAX_ADD); if (aggressive_window > 0) { sprintf(buf, "--window=%d", aggressive_window); append_option(argv_repack, buf, MAX_ADD); -- 1.5.3.7.2157.g9598e - 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