Re: v1.5.4 plans

> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > There are outstanding issues that need to be resolved:
> > 
> >  * We need to do something about "gc --aggressive".  The documentation
> >    removal patch from Linus, if it ever materializes, would be better
> >    than nothing, but I have this nagging suspicion that the explosion is
> >    merely a bad interation between -A and -f option to the repack, which
> >    are not meant to be used together.
> 
> Well, with the gcc repo, simply using 'git repack -a -f' with current 
> default window size does produce a 2.1GB pack, while changing the window 
> size to 100 (keeping default delta depth) produces a 400MB pack for me.
> 
> So this is really a matter of not having a sufficiently large window for 
> some data sets.