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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: serious performance issues with images, audio files,
 and other "non-code" data
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:59:51 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 18 May 2010, Jeff King wrote:

> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:33:58PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > > It will have to write the whole 200M packfile out each time, though.
> > 
> > No.  gc will only create a pack with new loose objects by default.  
> > Only if the number of packs grow too large will it combine them into one 
> > pack.
> 
> I think that is only "gc --auto".

Argh. You're right.  And "gc --auto" is already ran by many commands 
already.

It is "git repack" that doesn't combine packs by default.


Nicolas