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There should have be git gc --repack-arguments

From
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 7, 2021, 12:10 UTC
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<b35a68a1-e693-5502-7a28-a1dd8222d3a0@gmail.com>
Hi,

I request that git gc should have --repack-arguments option. The value of this option should be passed to git repack.

The use case is when I have very large repos (such as GCC and Linux kernel) on a server with small RAM (1-2 GB). When doing gc on such repo, the repack step may hang because git-repack have to create single large packfile which can be larger than available memory (RAM+swap), so it must be necessary to do git repack --window-memory=<desired memory usage> --max-pack-size=<desired pack size> to create split and smaller packs instead.

There should also git config item gc.repackArguments, which have the same effect as git gc --repack-arguments, with the option takes precedence over the config.

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