From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Nelson Subject: gc.auto bug in 1.6.5.7 Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:59:28 -0600 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 06 18:59:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NSaAk-0000w2-Pf for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:59:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756008Ab0AFR7v (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:59:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755992Ab0AFR7u (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:59:50 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f219.google.com ([209.85.219.219]:41124 "EHLO mail-ew0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755963Ab0AFR7t (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:59:49 -0500 Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so9872128ewy.21 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:59:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.86.213 with SMTP id w63mr1399522wee.71.1262800788464; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:59:48 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: It would appear that there is a bug in git, at least as of 1.6.5.7, in the gc command. When gc.auto is non-zero, it appears to consider packfiles as "loose" - this conflicts with pack.packSizeLimit, insofar as I have pack.packSizeLimit set to 2M (which appears to work). If gc.auto is, say, 50 - once I exceed 50 2MB packs then gc --auto repacks *every single time* it is run. This is unexpected, at least. -- Jon