Re: [PATCH 0/2] optimizing pack access on "read only" fetch repos

> I also wonder if we would be helped by another "repack" mode that
> coalesces small packs into a single one with minimum overhead, and
> run that often from "gc --auto", so that we do not end up having to
> have 50 packfiles.
>
> When we have 2 or more small and young packs, we could:
>
>  - iterate over idx files for these packs to enumerate the objects
>    to be packed, replacing read_object_list_from_stdin() step;
>
>  - always choose to copy the data we have in these existing packs,
>    instead of doing a full prepare_pack(); and
>
>  - use the order the objects appear in the original packs, bypassing
>    compute_write_order().