Re: [PATCH] builtin/repack.c: avoid making cruft packs preferred

[Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 12:27:51PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:
> I've had this sitting in my patch queue for a while now. It's a
> non-critical performance fix that avoids the repack/MIDX machinery from
> ever choosing a cruft pack as preferred when writing a MIDX bitmap
> without a given --preferred-pack.
>
> There is no correctness issue here, but choosing a pack with few/no
> reachable objects means that our pack reuse mechanism will rarely kick
> in, resulting in performance degradation.
>
>  builtin/repack.c        | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  t/t7704-repack-cruft.sh | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Oops, I should have mentioned that this is meant to be applied on top of
'tb/multi-cruft-pack' to reduce the conflict resolution burden. Sorry
about that.

Thanks,
Taylor