From: Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:38:00 GMT
Subject: Re: What happens when the repository is bigger than gc.autopacklimit * pack.packSizeLimit?
Message-ID: <201408291538.s7TFc0DU001156@hobgoblin.ariadne.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140827194746.GE7561@peff.net>

> 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