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Re: What happens when the repository is bigger than gc.autopacklimit * pack.packSizeLimit?

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Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu>
Date
Aug 29, 2014, 15:38 UTC
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> From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> why are you setting the packsize limit to 99m in the first place?

I want to copy the Git repository to box.com as a backup measure, and my account on box.com limits files to 100 MB.

> There are more delta opportunities

In this repository, only the smallest files are text files; the bulk of the files are executable binaries. So I've set core.bigFileThreshold to 10k to stop Git from attempting delta-compression of the binaries. That makes the repository slightly larger, but it dramatically speeds the repacking process.

Dale
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