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> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:38:46AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> > On Tue, 8 May 2007, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> >
>> > > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
>> >
>> > I'd prefer if tests were performed on the performance impact before
>> > changing the default depth. If done separately from this patch then the
>> > commit log could contain those results as well.
>>
>> The following results are on a recent git repository, using time to
>> record the real, user, and sys times on the two commands: "git-gc
>> --no-reuse-delta --window=X --depth=Y" and "git log --pretty=oneline
>> -S'object' > /dev/null". All of these tests were done with a hot
>> cache, so disk speed didn't enter into the calculations.
> [...]
>> My conclusion given this quick benchmark is that it seems to me that
>> changing the defaults of --depth to 50, and keeping --window at 10, is
>> a reasonable thing to do.
>
> Effectively.
>
> I'd still prefer to see the default changed in a patch of its own
> though.