Re: 'git gc --aggressive' effectively unusable

Frans Pop [off-list ref] writes:

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I haven't had the patience to let it finish

There's your problem.

Yes, I had seen that. But there's a difference between taking much more 
time and slowing down to such an extend that it never finishes.

I've tried it today on my linux-2.6 repo as well and the same thing 
happened. At first the progress is not fast but reasonable. When it gets 
to about 45% percent it starts slowing down a lot: from ~1500 objects per 
update of the counters to ~300 objects per update. And who knows what the 
progress is going to be when it reaches 70% or 90%: 10 per update?

Are you sure it doesn't subsequently speed up again?

-Miles

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