Re: git gc --aggressive led to about 40 times slower "git log --raw"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 19, 2014, 00:10 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4n3warni.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8AEXP45K+r3gGVTWbn4uuPLeHOkf-an20rj77QSfG1-ew@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> Lower depth than default (50) does not sound "aggressive" to me, at
> least from disk space utilization. I agree it should be configurable
> though.

Do you mean you want to keep "--aggressive" to mean "too aggressive in resulting size, to the point that it is not useful to anybody"?

Shallow and wide will give us, with a large window, the most aggressively efficient packfiles that are useful, and we would rather want to fix it to be usable, I would think.