From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: v1.5.4 plans Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:57:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20071022061115.GR14735@spearce.org> <7vodeecyni.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vpryqwtt7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vk5ot40w9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vy7d43ptc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vabpg9x5k.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vy7cwsi3p.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vk5o6jbq9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7v63zjgoel.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vsl2i6ea4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vhcixtnm4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vfxye4yv7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vve78qhtf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vmysijhwq.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 11 13:57:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J24g4-0002la-3e for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:57:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752248AbXLKM5M (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:57:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752183AbXLKM5L (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:57:11 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:54743 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752107AbXLKM5K (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:57:10 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2007 12:57:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 11 Dec 2007 13:57:07 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+nH7lRntGn/7O+I/hFIdupP0T+WHWPrtl2gdzNAL WFUZMuz7leMMIq Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2029 13:56:20 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > There are outstanding issues that need to be resolved: > > > > * We need to do something about "gc --aggressive". The documentation > > removal patch from Linus, if it ever materializes, would be better > > than nothing, but I have this nagging suspicion that the explosion is > > merely a bad interation between -A and -f option to the repack, which > > are not meant to be used together. > > Well, with the gcc repo, simply using 'git repack -a -f' with current > default window size does produce a 2.1GB pack, while changing the window > size to 100 (keeping default delta depth) produces a 400MB pack for me. > > So this is really a matter of not having a sufficiently large window for > some data sets. So my dumb patch to simply default to window and depth 250 with aggressive was not _that_ dumb after all? Ciao, Dscho