From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:59:34 GMT
Subject: Re: git gc --aggressive led to about 40 times slower "git log --raw"
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In-Reply-To: <CAGK7Mr4wpwUK6UF6vTmgszX4sajPDvQazY2QagFfH9BEJx_9Ow@mail.gmail.com>

Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com> writes:

>> fwiw this is the thread that added --depth=250
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/94565/focus=94626
>
> This post is quite interesting:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/94637

Yes, it most clearly says that --depth=250 was *not* a
recommendation, with technical background to explain why such a long
delta chain is a bad idea.