Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Generational repacking

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Sam Vilain wrote:

Dana How wrote:

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This patch complicates git-repack.sh quite a bit and
I'm unclear on what _problem_ you're addressing.

The problem is simple, and it is partially in the eye of the beholder.

That is;

  1. without repacking, you get a lot of loose objects.
     - unnecessary disk space usage
     - bad performance on many OSes

No argument.

  2. repack takes too long to run very regularly; it's an occasional
     command.

It doesn't take long at all when you don't use -a.

  3. the perception that git repositories are not maintenance free.

But this perception is true!  It is possible to automate it, but some 
maintenance is necessary at some point.

What I'm aiming for is something which is light enough that it might
even win back the performance loss you got from 1), and to solve the
perception problem of 3).

Run git-repack without -a from some hook.  You can even launch it in the 
background.

Or what am I missing?


Nicolas