On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > There are outstanding issues that need to be resolved: > > * We need to do something about "gc --aggressive". The documentation > removal patch from Linus, if it ever materializes, would be better > than nothing, but I have this nagging suspicion that the explosion is > merely a bad interation between -A and -f option to the repack, which > are not meant to be used together. Well, with the gcc repo, simply using 'git repack -a -f' with current default window size does produce a 2.1GB pack, while changing the window size to 100 (keeping default delta depth) produces a 400MB pack for me. So this is really a matter of not having a sufficiently large window for some data sets. > * We have a handful deprecation notices in the draft release notes, but > if I recall correctly, Nico wanted to add a few more. We need to > come up with a wording that is easy to understand for the end users > to decide which ancient versions will be affected. This is still on my todo 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
