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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] gc --aggressive: three phase repacking
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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But I think it's orthogonal to gc --aggressive improvement.
>
> There's another reason that improving gc may be a good idea (or not).
> It depends on how other git implementations handle long delta chains.

"Other git implementations" including current installations that have a
half-life of at last a year.

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David Kastrup