Re: [PATCH] Add pack.depth option to git-pack-objects and change default depth to 50

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:38:46AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 May 2007, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> > 
> > I'd prefer if tests were performed on the performance impact before 
> > changing the default depth.  If done separately from this patch then the 
> > commit log could contain those results as well.
> 
> The following results are on a recent git repository, using time to
> record the real, user, and sys times on the two commands: "git-gc
> --no-reuse-delta --window=X --depth=Y" and "git log --pretty=oneline
> -S'object' > /dev/null".  All of these tests were done with a hot
> cache, so disk speed didn't enter into the calculations.
[...]
> My conclusion given this quick benchmark is that it seems to me that
> changing the defaults of --depth to 50, and keeping --window at 10, is
> a reasonable thing to do.

Effectively.

I'd still prefer to see the default changed in a patch of its own 
though.


Nicolas