From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 19:59:51 GMT
Subject: Re: serious performance issues with images, audio files, and other "non-code" data
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1005181557250.12758@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20100518194105.GA4723@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, 18 May 2010, Jeff King wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:33:58PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> I think that is only "gc --auto".

Argh. You're right.  And "gc --auto" is already ran by many commands 
already.

It is "git repack" that doesn't combine packs by default.


Nicolas