Re: [PATCH] gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 18, 2009, 16:01 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903181657180.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712061201580.27959@racer.site>

Hi,

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> The default was not to change the window or depth at all.  As suggested
> by Jon Smirl, Linus Torvalds and others, default to
> 
> 	--window=250 --depth=250
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---

Guess what. This is still unresolved, and yet somebody else had to be bitten by 'git gc --aggressive' being everything but aggressive.

So... I think it is high time to resolve the issue, either by applying this patch with a delay of over one year, or by the pack wizards trying to implement that 'never fall back to a worse delta' idea mentioned in this thread.

Although I suggest, really, that implying --depth=250 --window=250 (unless overridden by the config) with --aggressive is not at all wrong.

Ciao, Dscho