From: Derrick Stolee Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:32:46 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] pack-objects: create new name-hash algorithm Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 9/18/24 4:46 PM, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote: > 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