From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Generational repacking
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:13:15 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466793EB.2060102@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0706062314410.12885@xanadu.home>
Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> 2. repack takes too long to run very regularly; it's an occasional
>> command.
> It doesn't take long at all when you don't use -a.
Well that depends how many loose objects there are :) I heard about on
Windows a case where packing 30k loose objects took over an hour.
>> What I'm aiming for is something which is light enough that it might
>> even win back the performance loss you got from 1), and to solve the
>> perception problem of 3).
>
> Run git-repack without -a from some hook. You can even launch it in the
> background.
>
> Or what am I missing?
If you repack every 100 objects without -a, sure it will be fast, but
you'll end up with too many packs.
Sam.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-06 11:08 [PATCH] [RFC] Generational repacking Sam Vilain
2007-06-06 22:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-06 22:53 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-07 0:04 ` Dana How
2007-06-07 2:28 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-07 3:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-06-07 5:13 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2007-06-07 13:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-06-07 21:29 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-07 19:46 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-06-07 21:36 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-07 22:51 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-06-07 3:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
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