Re: [PATCH] git-repack: generational repacking (and example hook script)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jul 3, 2007, 14:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20070703145552.GG4495@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707031020300.26459@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

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> And even if your developers are completely inept to the point of not 
> wanting to run 'git gc' once a week for example, or once a day if 
> they're otherwise really really productive, I'm sure you can automate 
> some of that maintenance asynchronously from a simple post commit hook 
> or something, based on the output of 'git count-objects -v'.

Yea, you need not just the loose object count but also the number of packfiles. git-gui suggests repacking based on loose object count alone right now, but with us keeping fetched packfiles by git-index-pack I found a repository on my desktop the other day that had 30 packfiles in it. I need to fix that in git-gui and also add a limit based on the number of small-ish packfiles present.

BTW, I have some users that might as well be Aunt Tillie. They merge any branch they can find. "Oh, look, there's a new branch called Highly-Experimental! I'll bet that's good for merging too!"

Asking them to also run git-gc once in a while is like asking them
to actually do their job or something...  *sighs* OK, I have to go
to work and undo that Highly-Experimental merge I found last night.
*sigh*

-- 
Shawn.