Re: git gc expanding packed data?

From: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 12, 2009, 14:45 UTC
Message-ID: <3ace41890908120745y305b2a59hd453b7e146e4a774@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0908111718490.10633@xanadu.home>

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Nicolas Pitre<nico@cam.org> wrote: <snipped>

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> From git v1.6.3 the --aggressive switch makes for 'git repack' to be
> called with --window=250 --depth=250, meaning the equivalent of:
>
>        git repack -a -d -f --window=250 --depth=250
>
> Do you still get a huge pack with the above?
>
>> I guess --aggressive doesn't always save space...
>
> If so that is (and was) a bug.

I tried 'git repack -a -d -f --window=250 --depth=250' with 1.6.2.5 (fc11.x86_64) and it took half a day, swallowed up all the memory - 3GB virtual & 1.3GB resident - and finally the kernel oom killer killed it at a last message of (601460/957910). Left no temp files. Would git 1.6.3 use less memory? :-(

Hin-Tak