From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 08:28:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Funny error with git gc...
Message-ID: <op.ut39s4cf1e62zd@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905151128230.3343@localhost.localdomain>

Am 15.05.2009, 20:46 Uhr, schrieb Linus Torvalds  
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:

> I also think you _should_ be able to avoid this by just limiting the pack
> size usage. IOW, with some packed_git_limit, something like
>
> 	[core]
> 		packedGitWindowSize = 16k
> 		packedGitLimit = 1M

Does the latter do the equivalent of "--max-pack-size"?

If it does, then there is a related issue on the output side - and that  
is, that I get humongous amounts of packs with that option. Say, I'm  
repacking my leafnode repos, then
with --max-pack-size=1, I get eight packs of 1 MB (8 MB),
  and --max-pack-size=4  yields one pack of 2 - 3 MB size...

-- 
Matthias Andree