From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:32:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Something is broken in repack
Message-ID: <fjrj9k$n6k$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0712130532s79aa7afeve6f018f9430ab3b3@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2007 10:48 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
>> In the mean time you might have to use only one thread and lots of
>> memory to repack the gcc repo, or find the perfect memory allocator to
>> be used with Git.  After all, packing the whole gcc history to around
>> 230MB is quite a stunt but it requires sufficient resources to
>> achieve it. Fortunately, like Linus said, such a wholesale repack is not
>> something that most users have to do anyway.
> 
> Is there an alternative to "git repack -a -d" that repacks everything
> but the first pack?

That would be a pretty good idea for big repositories.  If I were to 
implement it, I would actually add a .git/config option like 
pack.permanent so that more than one pack could be made permanent; then 
to repack really really everything you'd need "git repack -a -a -d".

Paolo