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Re: dangling commits and blobs: is this normal?

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Apr 23, 2009, 17:56 UTC
Message-ID
<20090423175612.GV23604@spearce.org>
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<064C9132-2E72-4665-A44D-A2F4194DAC2B@adacore.com>
Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com> wrote:
> significant
> speedups, especially during large imports that currently require  
> frequent
> repacking of the entire repository.

Large imports should be using fast-import, and then issue a single massive `git repack -f --window=250 --depth=50` or some such repack command after the entire import is complete.

If your favorite import tool (*cough* git-svn *cough*) can't use fast-import, and you are importing a large enough repository that this matters to you, use another importer that can use fast-import.

-- 
Shawn.
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  10. Matthieu MoyApr 23, 2009
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  13. Nicolas PitreApr 22, 2009
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  17. Shawn O. PearceApr 23, 2009
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  20. Nicolas PitreApr 23, 2009
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