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From: "Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Funny error with git gc...
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:28:06 +0200
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Am 15.05.2009, 20:46 Uhr, schrieb Linus Torvalds  
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:

> I also think you _should_ be able to avoid this by just limiting the pack
> size usage. IOW, with some packed_git_limit, something like
>
> 	[core]
> 		packedGitWindowSize = 16k
> 		packedGitLimit = 1M

Does the latter do the equivalent of "--max-pack-size"?

If it does, then there is a related issue on the output side - and that  
is, that I get humongous amounts of packs with that option. Say, I'm  
repacking my leafnode repos, then
with --max-pack-size=1, I get eight packs of 1 MB (8 MB),
  and --max-pack-size=4  yields one pack of 2 - 3 MB size...

-- 
Matthias Andree