From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Barkalow Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta option to git-gc Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 01:05:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <7vr6ps3oyk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <11786309073709-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <11786309072612-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <11786309071033-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List To: Theodore Ts'o X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 09 07:05:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HleN3-0003hi-2P for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 07:05:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S968850AbXEIFFj (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 01:05:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S968845AbXEIFFj (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 01:05:39 -0400 Received: from iabervon.org ([66.92.72.58]:4318 "EHLO iabervon.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754654AbXEIFFi (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 01:05:38 -0400 Received: (qmail 18638 invoked by uid 1000); 9 May 2007 05:05:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 May 2007 05:05:37 -0000 In-Reply-To: <11786309071033-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 *This .sig left intentionally blank*