pack count on repo.or.cz [was "Medium term dreams"]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 04:19:47PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I've pushed a sample repository that future git.git might look like to:

    http://repo.or.cz/w/git/split-submodule.git/

Holy pack count, Batman! On a whim, I cloned this via http (by switching
/w/ to /r/). It took 7m13s. Cloning by git://, for comparison, took
1m31s. I pulled down 82 separate packs (and curiously, 277 separate .idx
files).

I know it is nice to keep the packs somewhat split for dumb transport
users (since they otherwise have to pull down the whole thing), but I
think it is coming here at the cost of first-time cloners (and yes,
obviously I should have used --reference to an existing git clone; but
for many that will not be an option).

It looks like the gc.autopacklimit defaults to 50, which would have
helped this. Pasky, is repo.or.cz not gc-ing? Or gc-ing with different
parameters? Or is this an artifact of the forking infrastructure (i.e.,
these packs are actually split across multiple modules)?

-Peff