Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] builtin/pack-objects: report reused packfile objects

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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 03:15:33PM +0100, Christian Couder wrote:
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> > From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> >
> > To see when packfile reuse kicks in or not, it is useful to
> > show reused packfile objects statistics in the output of
> > upload-pack.
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> Yep, I think this one makes sense. I would be a bit curious to see how
> often reuse actually kicks in for you with the current code. Back when I
> worked on this topic in 2015, it was kicking in for us almost-never (at
> least for big repos like torvalds/linux that we were interested in
> measuring), but that's because we were packing all of the forks together
> (and still do). The earlier heuristics made no sense for that case.
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> I don't know if it's really worth spending a lot of time trying to
> collect data, though.