From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 01:31:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] gc --aggressive: three phase repacking
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe we should introduce another option --pack-for-archive
> which features the characteristics of the old --aggressive.
> And the new --aggressive would be a tradeoff between space and
> time?
> Thinking further we could add a couple of options there like
>  --developer-friendly which makes blaming fast
>  --hosting-friendly which makes it most efficient when upstream
>  --archival-friendly (the old --aggressive)
>  --...

--aggressive-mode=<mode> would be a good option to select those
friendly modes instead of a bunch of new options. Well, maby "gc
--mode" is enough, we already have two modes: normal and aggressive
(or although maybe it should be renamed archive).
-- 
Duy