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Reduce number of changes to pack file.

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CSChandra Sukiman <tmcchandra@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 28, 2011, 03:33 UTC
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Hi,

I am using git with Dropbox (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/using-gitdropbox-together-effectively). Basically I created a bare repository at dropbox and everyone uses that for central repository. As the repository size is getting bigger, sometime during the git gc, it will create a huge .pack file (300 mb) which need to be uploaded and downloaded by everyone. I tried to limit the size of the pack to 10m (pack.packSizeLimit = 10m), but when doing gc, what happens now is that most of the pack files will get re-arranged and modified. This will cause the same upload/download issue that I want to solve.

Is there any way for git gc to reduce the number of file changed?
Thank you
Chandra
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