Re: People unaware of the importance of "git gc"?

From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Date: Sep 5, 2007, 21:14 UTC
Message-ID: <87ps0wzufo.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0709051634190.21186@xanadu.home>

On 5 Sep 2007, Nicolas Pitre stated:

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> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 	git fetch
>
> I think that would be a much better idea to simply decrease the 
> fetch.unpackLimit default value.

I think `git fetch' works reasonably well as is: unless you're fetching every five minutes you often find you get packs anyway. There's no point packing incrementally *too* often, or you replace a lots-of-objects problem with a lots-of-packs problem, after which you're worse off than when you started.

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