From: Michael Andreen <harv@ruin.nu>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:56:56 GMT
Subject: Re: very slow "git gc --aggressive" in GIT-1.6.4.4
Message-ID: <200909182156.56587.harv@ruin.nu>
In-Reply-To: <ee2a733e0909181223j1ffc99edkdb3700adb37fa147@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday 18 September 2009 21:23:59 Leo Razoumov wrote:
> I noticed that "git gc --agressive" takes 5 times longer with
> git-1.6.4.4 than with git-1.6.2.5.
> 
> Below are benchmarks on my Linux Ubuntu-9.04 laptop (Core2 Duo 2.54GHz).
> As a test repo I use a mirror of the official GIT upstream.

git-1.6.3 and later changed the settings for --aggressive to window=250 and 
depth=250, which produces a tighter pack. The earlier setting wasn't really 
aggressive.

/Michael