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Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Generational repacking

From
Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date
Jun 7, 2007, 05:13 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>   2. repack takes too long to run very regularly; it's an occasional
>>      command.
> It doesn't take long at all when you don't use -a.

Well that depends how many loose objects there are :) I heard about on Windows a case where packing 30k loose objects took over an hour.

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>> What I'm aiming for is something which is light enough that it might
>> even win back the performance loss you got from 1), and to solve the
>> perception problem of 3).
> 
> Run git-repack without -a from some hook.  You can even launch it in the 
> background.
> 
> Or what am I missing?

If you repack every 100 objects without -a, sure it will be fast, but you'll end up with too many packs.

Sam.
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  1. [RFC] Generational repackingSam Vilain, Jun 6, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 6, 2007
  3. Sam VilainJun 6, 2007
  4. Dana HowJun 7, 2007
  5. Sam VilainJun 7, 2007
  6. Nicolas PitreJun 7, 2007
  7. Sam VilainJun 7, 2007
  8. Nicolas PitreJun 7, 2007
  9. Sam VilainJun 7, 2007
  10. Martin LanghoffJun 7, 2007
  11. Sam VilainJun 7, 2007
  12. Martin LanghoffJun 7, 2007
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