From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:39:35 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] change the unpack limit treshold to a saner value Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Note that this setting is currently observed for pushes not pulls. > On the pull side you currentli need to provide -k for not exploding > packs. So noted. > So the question is what number of objects on average do pushes have? If > most pushes are below the treshold this is not going to be really > useful. It will depend a lot on the project, and "where" in the project you are. For example, for most end developers, the "push" is likely going to be a few commits (say, a days work). Probably on the order of a few tens to maybe a few hundred objects. It's actually hard to create a pack with less than ten objects if you have a few directory levels (a single small commit in the kernel is usually 5-7 objects: commit + 2-3 levels of directory + a couple of blobs). For me, as I pull a big merge and push it out, a push can easily be in the thousands of objects, just because I merged other peoples combined work over several weeks. And for a "mirror" server, it will depend on the granularity of the mirroring. > And I think 5000 is definitely way too high. 10 might be too small > indeed. 100 is maybe a good default to try out. I think 100 is a nice round number for humans. Worth trying.