From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 15:03:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-gc.txt: change --aggressive description
Message-ID: <20080513150327.GA8077@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805131252310.30431@racer>

Johannes Schindelin wrote (2008-05-13 14:53 +0300):

> On Tue, 13 May 2008, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> 
> > Teemu Likonen wrote (2008-05-13 13:57 +0300):
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > I mean, what I'm seeing many places is suggestions to run
> >
> >   git repack -a -d -f --window=100 --depth=100
> 
> I posted a patch to use 250, not just 100, with --aggressive.  See the
> mailing list archives for the discussion.

Thanks. For easy access I'll paste a link to the discussion. I believe
you are referring to this message and thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/94565/focus=67275