Hi, On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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. So my dumb patch to simply default to window and depth 250 with aggressive was not _that_ dumb after all? Ciao, Dscho - 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
