Re: serious performance issues with images, audio files, and other "non-code" data

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: May 18, 2010, 19:33 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005181528550.12758@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20100518191933.GB2383@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, 18 May 2010, Jeff King wrote:

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> So you might want "git gc --aggressive" the _first_ time you pack, or
> possibly even very occasionally. But if you are packing every day, you
> should just use "git gc", which will run much more quickly (and would
> probably have acceptable behavior even without the -delta attribute, as
> it would only have to look at _new_ objects).
> 
> It will have to write the whole 200M packfile out each time, though.

No. gc will only create a pack with new loose objects by default. Only if the number of packs grow too large will it combine them into one pack.

> Packing nightly won't hurt, but is perhaps excessive. It sounds like you
> actually have a fairly normal workload.

Packing nightly with a simple "git gc" i.e. without extra options should be perfectly fine.

Nicolas