On 13 mei 2008, at 13:52, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
The documentation for the --aggressive flag was misleading, hinting
that
running git gc with --aggressive is a good thing. However, --
aggressive
only really makes sense if you have a bad pack file, such as from
git-fast-import.
I disagree. It makes sense to "git gc --aggressive" also after
cloning
from somebody who did not do so.
The problem with this is that your pack might increase in size, which
you can't know in advance. Running "git gc --aggressive" on the git
repo for example increases its size from 20MB to 30MB.
The current wording at least makes it sound as if --aggressive will
always result in a smaller pack, which is simply not true. Increasing
the window and depth might help, but 250 or even 100 can be too much
on any decently size repository.
How about dropping the last sentence ("Using --aggressive only makes
sense if you have a badly packed repository, such as created by git-
fast-import.") then?
- Pieter
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