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Re: Are binary xdeltas only used if you use git-gc?

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TTThanassis Tsiodras <ttsiodras@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2008, 11:16 UTC
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Actually, after using git-gc, git-repack isn't really needed... git-gc identifies that the two files are very similar and re-deltifies (see the du -s -k outputs in the original mail, after git-gc we have in fact lower usage than the first commit).

My question is basically... (a) why doesn't git detect this during commit and needs a git-gc (b) whether after git-gc I would have seen the massive difference during a subsequent git-push or not

Thanassis.
> Have you tried to git repack with aggressive options, like:
>
>    git repack --window=500 --depth=500 \
>      --window-memory=<fair amount of your physical RAM>
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