Re: v1.5.4 plans

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

There are outstanding issues that need to be resolved:

 * We need to do something about "gc --aggressive".  The documentation
   removal patch from Linus, if it ever materializes, would be better
   than nothing, but I have this nagging suspicion that the explosion is
   merely a bad interation between -A and -f option to the repack, which
   are not meant to be used together.

Well, with the gcc repo, simply using 'git repack -a -f' with current 
default window size does produce a 2.1GB pack, while changing the window 
size to 100 (keeping default delta depth) produces a 400MB pack for me.

So this is really a matter of not having a sufficiently large window for 
some data sets.

 * We have a handful deprecation notices in the draft release notes, but
   if I recall correctly, Nico wanted to add a few more.  We need to
   come up with a wording that is easy to understand for the end users
   to decide which ancient versions will be affected.

This is still on my todo list.


Nicolas