From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:59:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: proper pack time stamping with --max-pack-size
Message-ID: <7vzlt2wdb4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803131440590.2947@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> Runtime pack access is done in the pack file mtime order since recent 
> packs are more likely to contain frequently used objects than old packs.
> However the --max-pack-size option can produce multiple packs with mtime 
> in the reversed order as newer objects are always written first.
>
> Let's modify mtime of later pack files (when any) so they appear older 
> than preceding ones when a repack creates multiple packs.

It is a very good companion to f7c22cc (always start looking up objects in
the last used pack first, May 30, 2007) after 10 months ;-)