On 2009-03-18 17:01 (+0100), Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> 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 > Guess what. This is still unresolved, and yet somebody else had to be > bitten by 'git gc --aggressive' being everything but aggressive. Pieter de Bie's tests seem to suggest that usually --window=50 --depth=50 gives about the same results than with higher values: http://vcscompare.blogspot.com/2008/06/git-repack-parameters.html I don't understand the issue very well myself so I really can't say what would be a/the good value. Anyway, I agree that it would be nice if "git gc --aggressive" were aggressive and a user wouldn't need to know about "git repack" and its cryptical low-levelish options. -- 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