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

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 29, 2014, 18:47 UTC
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:38:00AM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote:
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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.

That makes sense, though I question whether packs are really helping you in the first place. I wonder if you would be better off keep your non-delta binaries as loose objects (this would require a new option to pack-objects and teaching "gc --auto" to ignore these when counting loose objects, but would be fairly straightforward).

-Peff
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