Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2018, #06; Fri, 30)

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 31, 2018, 09:39 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8C2YuxfjBannunoTr8zERf8hC1z568KLAbfhtQYQyf+FQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvadd1epf.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> * nd/repack-keep-pack (2018-03-26) 7 commits
>  - pack-objects: show some progress when counting kept objects
>  - gc --auto: exclude base pack if not enough mem to "repack -ad"
>  - gc: handle a corner case in gc.bigPackThreshold
>  - gc: add gc.bigPackThreshold config
>  - gc: add --keep-largest-pack option
>  - repack: add --keep-pack option
>  - t7700: have closing quote of a test at the beginning of line
>
>  "git gc" in a large repository takes a lot of time as it considers
>  to repack all objects into one pack by default.  The command has
>  been taught to pretend as if the largest existing packfile is
>  marked with ".keep" so that it is left untouched while objects in
>  other packs and loose ones are repacked.
>
>  Reroll exists, but it seems to be still slushy.
>  cf. <20180316192745.19557-1-pclouds@gmail.com>

The next one v4 [1] should be less slushy.

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20180324072507.21059-1-pclouds@gmail.com/#t

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Duy