From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [PATCH 0/8] Updated git-gc --auto series. Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:27:05 -0700 Message-ID: <1190017633436-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 17 11:43:33 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 1IXD8Z-0006vM-RZ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:43:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753900AbXIQJnG (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:43:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753822AbXIQJnF (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:43:05 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao105.cox.net ([68.230.241.41]:42683 "EHLO fed1rmmtao105.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753844AbXIQJnD (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:43:03 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 4537 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:42:51 EDT Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao107.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20070917082713.EIS29193.fed1rmmtao107.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:27:13 -0400 Received: from localhost ([68.225.240.77]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id pLTD1X00S1gtr5g0000000; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 04:27:14 -0400 X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.3.1.967.g6bb01 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: An updated series of "git-gc --auto", on top of 'next', consisting of 8 patches, will follow this message. Differences from the previous round are: - Earlier if you have too many unreachable loose objects, automated gc would have tried to "repack -d -l" which would not improve the situation at all every time it was run. It now at least warns upon such a situation; - pack-objects learned --keep-unreachable option which helps "repack -a -d" not to lose packed but unreachable objects while repacking existing packs into a new pack; - repack learned -A option which is similar to -a but gives --keep-unreachable to underlying pack-objects; - "git-gc --auto" runs "git-repack -A -d -l" when there are too many packs in the repository; - These changes are documented ;-)