Re: [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta option to git-gc

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: May 9, 2007, 05:05 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705090056231.18541@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <11786309071033-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> This allows the user to regenerate the deltas in packs while doing
> a git-gc.  The user could just run git-repack -a -d -f -l after
> running git-gc, but then the first git-repack run by git-gc is
> a bit of waste.

Maybe git-gc should have an option for "compress hard"? It seems to me like a two-sizes-fit-all solution would be good here; "git gc" for daily use, and "git gc --squeeze" for when you want to make the result as small as possible, with compute time not being a major factor. If all you know is that you're going to burn this repository onto a stack of CDs and mail it to somebody (but don't know about delta reuse, window sizes, and depths, let alone good values for these), it would be good to have an option where it picks an appropriate different set of defaults for you.

	-Daniel
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