From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:57:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-gc.txt: change --aggressive description
Message-ID: <20080513105728.GA3088@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <1210672413-8761-1-git-send-email-pdebie@ai.rug.nl>

Pieter de Bie wrote (2008-05-13 11:53 +0200):

> I keep seeing people regularly packing their repo with git gc
> --aggressive. However, in my experience, this seldom results in
> a smaller repository. This can be because the repository was repacked
> tightly previously (for example, with a high --window value) or
> because incremental "git gc" just makes better packs anyway. Throwing
> away that information is often not a good idea.
> 
> The documentation for the --aggressive flag was misleading, in that it
> hints that you'll get a smaller pack, which is often not the case.

This patch might be a good thing. But from ordinary user's point of view
this raises questions: if gc --aggressive really is not that aggressive
then the option itself is misleading. Why not change gc --aggressive to
be really effective? Using high --window/--depth value etc.