Re: [PATCH] fix for "index-pack: rationalize delta resolution code"

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Oct 20, 2008, 20:04 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810201601480.26244@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20081020193652.GA22123@fiberbit.xs4all.nl>

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Marco Roeland wrote:

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> On Monday Oktober 20th 2008 at 15:27 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > > This is on a quadcore. I recently experimented with "git config
> > > pack.threads 0" but as it didn't seem to speedup anything I removed
> > > it again. Just mention it on the infinitesimal chance it might be
> > > important.
> > 
> > It is not.  And the speedup should be noticeable when you repack, not 
> > when you fetch.
> 
> No offense meant!

Oh certainly not.

> I tried a few "git gc" and "git repack" and only
> watched the Gnome CPU applet; perhaps everything was already nicely
> packed. I'm certainly going to retry now. Thanks for all your good work.

If you want to make the difference really visible, try with 'git repack -a -f --window=100'.

Nicolas