Re: [PATCH] Add --no-reuse-delta, --window, and --depth options to git-gc

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Theodore Tso [off-list ref] writes:

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On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:13:58PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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Especially if you're aware and interested in those options, you won't be 
afraid of 'git repack -a -f -d --window=...".

In the context of "gc", having an option that reads "window" looks a bit 
strange too.

I suppose, but you either need to then know all of the other commands
which git-gc runs, and do them manually, skipping git-gc altogether,
or use git-gc, and end up rewriting the pack twice,...

If the user really wants to tweak the parameters that much and
that often, I think what Nico says, plus your pack.depth/window
configuration variables, make more sense.

Also, once you've run git-repack with -f and the window/depth params you 
want, those deltas will be reused as is by default afterwards even if 
you use git-gc.  So the big repack to tighten a large repo needs only to 
be done once.


Nicolas