Re: [PATCH] Add pack.depth option to git-pack-objects and change default depth to 50

On 5/8/07, Theodore Tso [off-list ref] wrote:

The following results are on a recent git repository, using time to
record the real, user, and sys times on the two commands: "git-gc
--no-reuse-delta --window=X --depth=Y" and "git log --pretty=oneline
-S'object' > /dev/null".  All of these tests were done with a hot
cache, so disk speed didn't enter into the calculations.

...

So a couple of things immediately become evident.  First of all, as
Junio predicted, changing --depth makes no difference to the git-gc or
git log times.  The latter is thanks to the delta chaching.  Secondly,
changing --depth does make a signficiant difference to the pack size.

Finally, --window does help somewhat in reducing the pack size, but it
_significantly_ increases the time to calculate the pack.

My conclusion given this quick benchmark is that it seems to me that
changing the defaults of --depth to 50, and keeping --window at 10, is
a reasonable thing to do.

If you still have the packfiles around,  the times for some non-pickaxe
git-log commands would be interesting,  like from git-log's man page:
       git log v2.6.12.. include/scsi drivers/scsi
       git log --since="2 weeks ago" -- gitk
These operations would be more dominated by processing smaller objects.

Thanks,
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Dana L. How  danahow@gmail.com  +1 650 804 5991 cell