From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:36:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Generational repacking
Message-ID: <46687A73.6080100@vilain.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90706071246y7dd14f55t199b8ed4e7617b68@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
>> Run git-repack without -a from some hook.  You can even launch it in the
>> background.
> 
> I posted an RFC patch a while ago doing exactly that, and Linus shot
> it down, indicating we should instead print a message suggesting
> repack to the user.
> 
> Relevant thread around
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0606/22977.html
> 
>> Or what am I missing?
> 
> I don't think people were comfortable at the time with concurrent
> repacks -- though the semantics are safe if we don't hit any bug. My
> guess is that noone wants to risk the .001% chances of data corruption
> for this nice-to-have.

Ok.  But if repack is generational you probably don't mind waiting for
it on commit so don't need to background it.

Sam.