Re: [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta, --window, and --depth options to git-gc

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: May 8, 2007, 13:46 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0705080941350.24220@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6ps3oyk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:13:58PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >> ... 
> >> Especially if you're aware and interested in those options, you won't be 
> >> afraid of 'git repack -a -f -d --window=...".
> >> 
> >> In the context of "gc", having an option that reads "window" looks a bit 
> >> strange too.
> >
> > I suppose, but you either need to then know all of the other commands
> > which git-gc runs, and do them manually, skipping git-gc altogether,
> > or use git-gc, and end up rewriting the pack twice,...
> 
> If the user really wants to tweak the parameters that much and
> that often, I think what Nico says, plus your pack.depth/window
> configuration variables, make more sense.

Also, once you've run git-repack with -f and the window/depth params you want, those deltas will be reused as is by default afterwards even if you use git-gc. So the big repack to tighten a large repo needs only to be done once.

Nicolas