Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] pack-objects: freshen objects with multi-cruft packs

> > This series resurrects the first patch from v1 after introducing a
> > behavior change for 'git pack-objects --cruft --max-pack-size'. When
> > given with '--cruft', '--max-pack-size' now allows pack-objects to grow
> > a pack *just* past the given limit by at most one object.
>
> And what happens when the last object appended is very large, like
> 70?  Would we end up with 270 when the threshold says 200?
>
> I still am not getting what you are trying to explain in the above
> two paragraphs, but in general, "give up just before" would be a
> better choice than "give up just after", exactly because the threshold
> we are letting the user to give is the maximum.