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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, 18:54 UTC
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> From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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> 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).
Having 40,000 lose objects might be troublesome in its own way.
Dale
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  6. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2014
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