From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:38:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] gc --aggressive: three phase repacking
Message-ID: <87d2hkvtvd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8BhqiZcJY2=VWzu=ENGbbigWAQXQh3fYxLEtUxDd=8Z+Q@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

-- 
David Kastrup