Re: [RFC PATCH] We should add a "git gc --auto" after "git clone" due to commit graph

> On 10/5/2018 3:47 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 03:41:40PM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:
> > 
> > > > So can we really just take (total_objects - commit_graph_objects) and
> > > > compare it to some threshold?
> > > The commit-graph only stores the number of _commits_, not total objects.
> > Oh, right, of course. That does throw a monkey wrench in that line of
> > thought. ;)
> > 
> > There's unfortunately not a fast way of doing that. One option would be
> > to keep a counter of "ungraphed commit objects", and have callers update
> > it. Anybody admitting a pack via index-pack or unpack-objects can easily
> > get this information. Commands like fast-import can do likewise, and
> > "git commit" obviously increments it by one.
> > 
> > I'm not excited about adding a new global on-disk data structure (and
> > the accompanying lock).
> 
> If we want, then we can add an optional chunk to the commit-graph file that
> stores the object count.