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?
next prev parent 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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