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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Draft release notes for v1.5.3, as of -rc1
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:31:10 -0700
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bdowning@lavos.net (Brian Downing) writes:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:40:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> GIT v1.5.3 Release Notes (draft)
>> ========================
>> 
>> * New commands and options.
>
>   - "git repack" learned a "window-memory" limit which dynamically
>     reduces the window size to stay within the specified memory usage.

Thanks.

> "git-repack -a -d -f --window=100000 --window-memory=512m" seems to be
> good for those overnight make-it-smaller-damn-the-torpedoes archival
> repackings.  (You can't just set --window to BIGNUM as it still
> allocates an array of that size.)  Thanks to Nicolas Pitre's depth bias
> patch a high --depth doesn't seem to be quite as critical anymore to
> save space; it still helps, but things much much better at a lower
> depth.

This probably should go to Documentation/git-repack.txt
somewhere.