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Re: Delta compression not so effective

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Mar 1, 2017, 16:06 UTC
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On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... which brought it down to 206GB in a single pack. I then ran
>     git repack -a -d -F --window=350 --depth=250
> which took it down to 203GB, where I'm at right now.

Just a hunch. s/F/f/ perhaps? "-F" does not allow Git to recover from poor delta-base choice the original importer may have made (and if the original importer used fast-import, it is known that its choice of the delta-base is suboptimal).

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