Re: [PATCH] Added --mirror-all to git-fetch.
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
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> Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
> >> > (the archive vs active repacking strategy we talked about,
> >>
> >> Hmm, I think I've missed this, I must look that in the archive.
> >
> > Junio pushed the core code out but nobody has done the Porecelain
> > for it. The basic idea is to prevent repacking every pack all of
> > the time; there's probably no reason to repack a 100 MiB pack file
> > every time you repack your loose objects so you might want to keep
> > say a <5 MiB "active pack" holding your recent created objects
> > and repack that frequently and a larger 100+ MiB "history pack"
> > holding everything else. Maybe you repack everything on a longer
> > time scale, such as once a year.
>
> And IIRC we were stuck on the convention to tell which ones are
> archives and which ones are actives (i.e. fair game for
> repacking). We were trying to figure out how to mark active
> ones (whose name changes every time you repack).
Yes. I had pretty much given up on a size threshold concept and
was thus in agreement with you that we just needed a way to flag
each pack file...
> I realized that there is a very simple and obvious solution for
> it. Introduce $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/info/archived-packs, a flat
> text file that lists the names of the archive packs. Any pack
> not listed there are active one and are subject to repacking.
--
Shawn.
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>