From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Dana How <danahow@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Generational repacking
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:05:55 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0706062301210.12885@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56b7f5510706061704r34692c49v994ff368bbc12d05@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Dana How wrote:
> On 6/6/07, Sam Vilain <sam.vilain@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> > This is a quick hack at generational repacking. The idea is that you
> > successively do larger repack runs as the number of packs accumulates.
> >
> This patch complicates git-repack.sh quite a bit and
> I'm unclear on what _problem_ you're addressing.
> The recent LRU preferred pack patch
> reduces much of the value in keeping a repository tidy
> ("tidy" == "few pack files").
[...]
For the record... I didn't comment on this patch because I couldn't
form
a clear opinion about it.
But until its usefulness can be demonstrated I should side with Dana
here.
Nicolas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-06 11:08 [PATCH] [RFC] Generational repacking Sam Vilain
2007-06-06 22:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-06 22:53 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-07 0:04 ` Dana How
2007-06-07 2:28 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-07 3:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-06-07 5:13 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-07 13:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-06-07 21:29 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-07 19:46 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-06-07 21:36 ` Sam Vilain
2007-06-07 22:51 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-06-07 3:05 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
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