From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:01:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gc --aggressive: make it really aggressive
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:

> 
> 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