On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:
As an aside, that commit was enough to trigger a "git-gc --auto", which
was my first experience with it. It's actually kind of annoying
(especially since I was about to repack -a -d).
Well, you actually touched every files in the tree, and there are about
22K of them. this, plus the tree objects leading to them, your commit
certainly did create an unusual amount of loose objects. Repacking them
will inevitably take a wile.
Nicolas