From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:56:13 GMT
Subject: Re: dangling commits and blobs: is this normal?
Message-ID: <20090423175612.GV23604@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <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.