From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:06:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Delta compression not so effective
Message-ID: <CAPc5daWXafzN0dpyd+kdHcLU_YSmZpiNz_i2rXn_2hbMN-9Xww@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4d2a1852-8c84-2869-78ad-3c863f6dcaf7@gmail.com>

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).