Re: v1.5.4 plans

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Dec 11, 2007, 03:53 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99999.0712102249180.555@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vmysijhwq.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> There are outstanding issues that need to be resolved:
> 
>  * We need to do something about "gc --aggressive".  The documentation
>    removal patch from Linus, if it ever materializes, would be better
>    than nothing, but I have this nagging suspicion that the explosion is
>    merely a bad interation between -A and -f option to the repack, which
>    are not meant to be used together.

Well, with the gcc repo, simply using 'git repack -a -f' with current default window size does produce a 2.1GB pack, while changing the window size to 100 (keeping default delta depth) produces a 400MB pack for me.

So this is really a matter of not having a sufficiently large window for some data sets.

>  * We have a handful deprecation notices in the draft release notes, but
>    if I recall correctly, Nico wanted to add a few more.  We need to
>    come up with a wording that is easy to understand for the end users
>    to decide which ancient versions will be affected.

This is still on my todo list.

Nicolas