From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 06:54:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] gc docs: downplay the usefulness of --aggressive
Message-ID: <5cf21eee-a46f-2657-7bf3-e4963cf1c56b@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190318161502.7979-5-avarab@gmail.com>

Am 18.03.19 um 17:15 schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:
> +Using this option may optimize for disk space at the expense of
> +runtime performance. See the `--depth` and `--window` documentation in
> +linkgit:git-repack[1]. It is not recommended that this option be used
> +to improve performance for a given repository without running tailored
> +performance benchmarks on it. It may make things better, or worse. Not
> +using this at all is the right trade-off for most users and their
> +repositories.
> ++
> +The effects of this option are persistent to the extent that
> +`gc.autoPackLimit` and friends don't cause a consolidation of existing
> +pack(s) generated with this option.

The first paragraph talks about potential downsides. And I think that
the second paragraph attempts to tell me how I can back out if I'm hit
by those downsides. But I have not the slightest idea how to read this
sentence and know what I have to do.

-- Hannes