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Re: [PATCH] builtin/repack.c: avoid making cruft packs preferred

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Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date
Oct 3, 2023, 16:30 UTC
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 12:27:51PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:
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> I've had this sitting in my patch queue for a while now. It's a
> non-critical performance fix that avoids the repack/MIDX machinery from
> ever choosing a cruft pack as preferred when writing a MIDX bitmap
> without a given --preferred-pack.
>
> There is no correctness issue here, but choosing a pack with few/no
> reachable objects means that our pack reuse mechanism will rarely kick
> in, resulting in performance degradation.
>
>  builtin/repack.c        | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  t/t7704-repack-cruft.sh | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Oops, I should have mentioned that this is meant to be applied on top of 'tb/multi-cruft-pack' to reduce the conflict resolution burden. Sorry about that.

Thanks, Taylor

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  1. builtin/repack.c: avoid making cruft packs preferredTaylor Blau, Oct 3, 2023
  2. Taylor BlauOct 3, 2023
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2023
  4. Taylor BlauOct 3, 2023
  5. Jeff KingOct 3, 2023
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  7. builtin/repack.c: avoid making cruft packs preferredTaylor Blau, Oct 3, 2023
  8. Jeff KingOct 4, 2023
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