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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: dangling commits and blobs: is this normal?
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:56:13 -0700
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Geert Bosch <bosch@adacore.com> wrote:
> significant
> speedups, especially during large imports that currently require  
> frequent
> repacking of the entire repository.

Large imports should be using fast-import, and then issue a single
massive `git repack -f --window=250 --depth=50` or some such repack
command after the entire import is complete.

If your favorite import tool (*cough* git-svn *cough*) can't use
fast-import, and you are importing a large enough repository that
this matters to you, use another importer that can use fast-import.

-- 
Shawn.