Re: [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta option to git-gc

[Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>]

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> This allows the user to regenerate the deltas in packs while doing
> a git-gc.  The user could just run git-repack -a -d -f -l after
> running git-gc, but then the first git-repack run by git-gc is
> a bit of waste.

Maybe git-gc should have an option for "compress hard"? It seems to me 
like a two-sizes-fit-all solution would be good here; "git gc" for daily 
use, and "git gc --squeeze" for when you want to make the result as small 
as possible, with compute time not being a major factor. If all you know 
is that you're going to burn this repository onto a stack of CDs and mail 
it to somebody (but don't know about delta reuse, window sizes, and 
depths, let alone good values for these), it would be good to have an 
option where it picks an appropriate different set of defaults for you.

	-Daniel
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