From: Thanassis Tsiodras <ttsiodras@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:16:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Are binary xdeltas only used if you use git-gc?
Message-ID: <f1d2d9ca0810310416n1e9f3700if49951a05cae9a37@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081031110245.GA22633@artemis.corp>

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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