Some interesting stats from the highly packed gcc repo. The long chain lengths very quickly tail off. Over 60% of the objects have a chain length of 20 or less. If anyone wants the full list let me know. I also have included a few other interesting points, the git default depth of 50, my initial guess of 100 and every 10% in the cumulative distribution from 60-100%. This shows the git default of 50 really isn't that bad, and after about 100 it really starts to get sparse. Harvey 1: 103817 103817 10.20% 1017922 2: 67332 171149 16.81% 3: 57520 228669 22.46% 4: 52570 281239 27.63% 5: 43910 325149 31.94% 6: 37520 362669 35.63% 7: 35248 397917 39.09% 8: 29819 427736 42.02% 9: 27619 455355 44.73% 10: 22656 478011 46.96% 11: 21073 499084 49.03% 12: 18738 517822 50.87% 13: 16674 534496 52.51% 14: 14882 549378 53.97% 15: 14424 563802 55.39% 16: 12765 576567 56.64% 17: 11662 588229 57.79% 18: 11845 600074 58.95% 19: 11694 611768 60.10% 20: 9625 621393 61.05% 34: 5354 719356 70.67% 50: 3395 785342 77.15% 60: 2547 815072 80.07% 100: 1644 898284 88.25% 113: 1292 917046 90.09% 158: 959 967429 95.04% 200: 652 997653 98.01% 219: 491 1008132 99.04% 245: 179 1017717 99.98% 246: 111 1017828 99.99% 247: 61 1017889 100.00% 248: 27 1017916 100.00% 249: 6 1017922 100.00% - 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