Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] pack-objects: create new name-hash algorithm
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Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
- Date
- Oct 8, 2024, 18:32 UTC
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- <b5c65c3c-ae6d-4b56-aec6-846a1118c59b@gmail.com>
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- <pull.1785.v2.git.1726692381.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
On 9/18/24 4:46 PM, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
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> I've been focused recently on understanding and mitigating the growth of a > few internal repositories. Some of these are growing much larger than > expected for the number of contributors, and there are multiple aspects to > why this growth is so large. > > This is part of the RFC I submitted [1] [2] involving the path-walk API, > though this doesn't use the path-walk API directly. In full repack cases, it > seems that the --full-name-hash option gets nearly as good compression as > the --path-walk option introduced in that series. I continue to work on that > feature as well, so we can review it after this series is complete.
Based on the discussion in this thread, I recommend pulling this branch out of 'seen' and instead focus on the --path-walk option which is now available at [3]. If we choose to revisit the --full-name-hash option, then that can be done on top of that feature which is probably a higher priority.
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1813.git.1728396723.gitgitgadget@gmail.com
Thanks, -Stolee