From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:47:16 GMT
Subject: Re: What happens when the repository is bigger than gc.autopacklimit * pack.packSizeLimit?
Message-ID: <20140829184716.GB29456@peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <201408291538.s7TFc0DU001156@hobgoblin.ariadne.com>

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:38:00AM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote:

> > 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