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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let "git svn" run "git gc --auto" occasionally
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:50:50 -0800
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On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 23:36 +0100, Karl Hasselstr=C3=B6m wrote:
> Let "git svn" run "git gc --auto" every 100 imported commits, to
> reduce the number of loose objects.

I found 100 was a bit too low when doing some large repos, I've
been using 1000.  I'd argue that --repack=3D1000 should be done by
default.

> I'm not quite sure how this should interact with the --repack flag.
> Right now they just coexist, except for never running right after one
> another, but conceivably we should do something cleverer. Eric?
>=20

How about git gc always gets run at the very end of a git svn fetch?

Just a thought.

Harvey