Re: gc getting called on each git command ... what's wrong?

[Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Geoff Russell wrote:
> > >
> > > As of today, almost every time I do a git command, gc is getting
> > > invoked.
> >
> > >   There are 96 pack files.
> >
> > That's why. See gc.autopacklimit in "git help config" -- by default,
> > git will gc if there are more than 50 pack files.

Thanks to everybody. This is exactly what was happening and the problems went
away when I set the packSizeLimit higher ... 3000M

>
> Actually it looks like it is combination of this and packSizeLimit set
> to 30M.  Git notices that it has too many packfiles, and tries to
> repack them, but packlimit forces Git to split it into small
> packfiles... and end up with more packfiles than limit anyway.
>
> Perhaps git should notice that it has nonsensical combination of
> options...

That would be nice. It should be reasonably easy to work out that the
packSizeLimit
will guarantee too many pack files after the gc. Disobeying a users
wishes shouldn't
be undertaken lightly, but sometimes we stuff up :)

Cheers,
Geoff.

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