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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>
Cc: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-svn should default to --repack
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:44:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfxwudftz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080118155607.GA21236@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> (Karl Hasselström's message of "Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:56:07 +0100")

Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:

> On 2008-01-18 07:17:55 -0500, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>
>> I was very surprised to find that git-svn does not in fact default
>> to --repack. I firmly believe it should.
>
> I believe so too. And nowadays there's "git gc --auto", which was made
> for occasions such as this, so it should be a breeze to implement. The
> overhead might be low enough that it can be called after _every_
> imported revision.

Careful.  I made the same mistake and it had to be corrected
with e0cd252eb0ba6453acd64762625b004aa4cc162b.

"gc --auto" after every 1000 or so feels like a good default and
I would agree that would be a real fix to a real usability bug.

Patches?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-18 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-18 12:17 git-svn should default to --repack Kevin Ballard
2008-01-18 15:56 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-01-18 20:44   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-01-19 12:35     ` Karl Hasselström
2008-01-19 15:05       ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-19 22:36       ` [PATCH] Let "git svn" run "git gc --auto" occasionally Karl Hasselström
2008-01-19 22:50         ` Harvey Harrison
2008-01-20  3:37           ` Eric Wong
2008-01-20  9:34             ` Karl Hasselström
2008-01-20 19:17               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-21 22:48                 ` Eric Wong
2008-01-22  0:30                   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-22  0:39                     ` Eric Wong
2008-01-22  1:52                       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-23  2:43                         ` git filter-branch should run git gc --auto Kevin Ballard
2008-01-23  2:46                           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-23  2:52                             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-23  3:03                               ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-23  2:54                             ` Harvey Harrison
2008-01-23  2:58                             ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-23  5:07                               ` Sam Vilain
2008-01-23  8:18                                 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-01-23  6:44                             ` Mike Hommey
2008-01-23 13:00                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-23 19:22                               ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-03 16:55                   ` [PATCH 0/2] "git svn" and "git gc --auto" Karl Hasselström
2008-02-03 16:56                     ` [PATCH 1/2] git-svn: Don't call git-repack anymore Karl Hasselström
2008-02-03 16:56                     ` [PATCH 2/2] Let "git svn" run "git gc --auto" occasionally Karl Hasselström
2008-01-20 21:39               ` [PATCH 1/2] git-svn: Don't call git-repack anymore Karl Hasselström
2008-01-20 21:40               ` [PATCH 2/2] Let "git svn" run "git gc --auto" occasionally Karl Hasselström

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