Re: 'git gc --aggressive' effectively unusable

[Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 16:05, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> I haven't had the patience to let it finish

There's your problem.

$ git help gc | sed -n /--aggressive$/,+3p
       --aggressive
           Usually git gc runs very quickly while
           providing good disk space utilization
           and performance. This option will
           cause git gc to more aggressively
           optimize the repository at the expense
           of taking much more time. The effects
           of this optimization are persistent, so
           this option only needs to be used
           occasionally; every few hundred
           changesets or so.

Last time I used this option (on Linus's Linux repo), I let the
algorithm do its thing for a couple of hours. Maybe the efficiency
could be vastly improved, but it does finish if you let it.

SIncerely,
Michael Witten