Re: [PATCH] Prevent megablobs from gunking up git packs

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > "Dana How" <danahow@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > The packed X too big combination is the problem.  As the
> > > commit message says,  this could happen if the packs
> > > came from fast-import,...
> > > We have three options in this case:
> > > (1) Drop the object (do not put it in the new pack(s)).
> > > (2) Pass the object into the new pack(s).
> > > (3) Write out the object as a new loose object.
> > >
> > > Option (1) is unacceptable.  When you call git-repack -a,
> > > it blindly deletes all the non-kept packs at the end.  So
> > > the megablobs would be lost.
> > 
> > Ok, I can buy that -- (1) nor (2) are unacceptable and (3) is
> > the only sane thing to do for a previously packed objects that
> > exceed the size limit.
> 
> I still don't buy the idea that these megablobs shouldn't be packed.
> I understand Dana's pain here (at least a little bit, my problems
> aren't as bad as his are), but I also hate to see us run away from
> packfiles for these really sick cases just because we have some
> issues in our current packfile handling.

Isn't this issue helpable by the "-delta" attribute?

Ciao,
Dscho