Re: Significant performance waste in git-svn and friends

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

What will happen is you will get a packfile per git-svn fetch, so
if you fetch 5 times that day you will get 5 packfiles that day.
But you could also get 5 packfiles from git-fetch if each of those
fetches brought in 100 or more new objects.  So it really is not
that big of a deal.

At some point the number of packfiles gets out of control, but so
does the number of loose objects.  Repacking is the obvious fix in
both cases.

This dovetails nicely with the "git gc --auto" work in progress, 
particularly the recent patch to pack small packfiles together when 
there get to be too many of them; run that at the end of every git-svn 
fetch and the problem goes away.

-Steve