Re: [PATCH] git-repack: generational repacking (and example hook script)

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> And even if your developers are completely inept to the point of not 
> wanting to run 'git gc' once a week for example, or once a day if 
> they're otherwise really really productive, I'm sure you can automate 
> some of that maintenance asynchronously from a simple post commit hook 
> or something, based on the output of 'git count-objects -v'.

Yea, you need not just the loose object count but also the number
of packfiles.  git-gui suggests repacking based on loose object
count alone right now, but with us keeping fetched packfiles by
git-index-pack I found a repository on my desktop the other day
that had 30 packfiles in it.  I need to fix that in git-gui and
also add a limit based on the number of small-ish packfiles present.

BTW, I have some users that might as well be Aunt Tillie.  They
merge any branch they can find.  "Oh, look, there's a new branch
called Highly-Experimental!  I'll bet that's good for merging too!"

Asking them to also run git-gc once in a while is like asking them
to actually do their job or something...  *sighs* OK, I have to go
to work and undo that Highly-Experimental merge I found last night.
*sigh*
 
-- 
Shawn.