From: Dale R. Worley <worley@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:54:45 GMT
Subject: Re: What happens when the repository is bigger than gc.autopacklimit * pack.packSizeLimit?
Message-ID: <201408291854.s7TIsjM3003040@hobgoblin.ariadne.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140829184716.GB29456@peff.net>

> From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

> 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