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Re: [PATCH 4/4] gc --aggressive: three phase repacking

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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
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Mar 18, 2014, 07:38 UTC
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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But I think it's orthogonal to gc --aggressive improvement.
>
> There's another reason that improving gc may be a good idea (or not).
> It depends on how other git implementations handle long delta chains.

"Other git implementations" including current installations that have a half-life of at last a year.

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Message 18 of 21 in “Better "gc --aggressive"”
  1. 0/4 Better "gc --aggressive"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 16, 2014
  2. 1/4 environment.c: fix constness for odb_pack_keep()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 16, 2014
  3. index-pack: do not segfault when keep_name is NULLNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 16, 2014
  4. 2/4 pack-objects: support --keepNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 16, 2014
  5. 3/4 gc --aggressive: make --depth configurableNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 16, 2014
  6. 4/4 gc --aggressive: three phase repackingNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Mar 16, 2014
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 17, 2014
  8. Duy NguyenMar 17, 2014
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 17, 2014
  10. Jeff KingMar 18, 2014
  11. Duy NguyenMar 18, 2014
  12. Jeff KingMar 18, 2014
  13. David KastrupMar 18, 2014
  14. Duy NguyenMar 19, 2014
  15. Jeff KingMar 18, 2014
  16. Duy NguyenMar 18, 2014
  17. Duy NguyenMar 18, 2014
  18. David KastrupMar 18, 2014
  19. David KastrupMar 18, 2014
  20. Duy NguyenMar 16, 2014
  21. Duy NguyenMar 20, 2014

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